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size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT>From <A
href="http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=3576_0_1_0_C">Always
On</A>: If we look at the IT world, there are a couple of fundamental laws,
which if we had understood back in the '60s and '70s, would have probably
prompted us to invest a lot more. I know that if I had really understood what
Gordon Moore was saying with Moore's Law in the 1960s, I might have bought some
Intel stock. He recognized - in 1964 - that computing power was going to double
every 18 to 24 months and the cost would drop in half. We began to recognize in
the mid-1990's that there's almost a direct correlation between the speed and
pace of DNA sequencing and Moore's Law. We could plot it out: every 18 to 24
months we were cutting the cost of DNA sequencing in half and doubling the
amount of throughput... <BR>Well, what do you know about puzzles? Say you start
out with a thousand pieces. It's really hard for the first few hundred pieces.
But then what happens? As the pieces of the puzzle start coming together, the
pace accelerates. The speed picks up as you get closer to the solution. The
principle is the same with genetics. The more we understand about each gene and
each pathway and human biology, and the more we understand about how every gene
contributes to cancer or other diseases, then the more we accelerate our
understanding of the other genes in the pathway. The results of this phenomenon
are these transforming technologies that can dramatically change the course of
the future by accelerating the rate at which we understand the molecular basis
for disease and discover new drugs. The 1980s were all about genomics and basic
science; the 1990s were really about industrialization. The 2000s and beyond, I
believe, are going to be about genomics and the consumer. </DIV></BODY></HTML>