> If someone said to me we can now do the same old blood tests faster and cheaper, I would say that this is going to have very little impact on people's health.

> If someone said to me we can now do the same old blood tests faster and cheaper, I would say that this is going to have very little impact on people's health. I think you vastly under-estimate the impact of cheaper prices. We're not all sitting around with computers in our pockets because they're drastically different, we're sitting around with them because they're cheap. Obviously there is skepticism on the applications, this is why she is giving all these talks about what this would enable. I don't have any particular insight about what this kind of price drop will produce (though cheaper STD testing can't be a bad thing), but I think massive reductions in price do fundamentally change how things get done.