Information is cheap(er)
Felix Salmon highlights the declining price of knowledge:
- Cost of sequencing Craig Venter’s genome: $3 billion, over 10 years
- Cost of sequencing James Watson’s genome: $1 million, over 2 months
- Cost of sequencing an anonymous African’s genome: $100,000, over 1 month
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