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Wait, Venter: $10 Million 2007: $1 Million 2008: $350,000 2009: $5,000 2010: $1,000 Um, like, holy fuck.

• zach 17y ago
  2015: Your DNA on a t-shirt for $30 at a mall kiosk.
• Femur 17y ago
  >Um, like, holy fuck. No doubt. Exponential trends like these are all over the place (life expectancy, CPU performance, etc...) One of my favorites is life expectancy [1]: 1850: 38 1900: 48 1950: 66 2000: 74 2004: ~76 This kind of trending is one of the foundational aspects of Ray Kurzweil and Co's singularity forecasts. [1] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
  • nazgulnarsil 17y ago
    um...that progression of life expectancy isn't exponential.
    • eru 17y ago
      Perhaps you can fit it to the following form (twiddling with parameters a and b): life expectancy = (maximum life expectancy) - a * exp(-time*b) If yes, you could still call it exponential in a certain sense of the word. But I doubt that will be very helpful.