I love the inverted hockey sticks idea. Very interesting to me that while these new technologies can create new life forms others are spending billions to literally bring back the dodo.
When I first heard the hockey stick description it lets you understand and relate to how hard stuff is the first time, then you get kinda good at it and then no matter how much you try it gets hard to do it better. I agree with you about how new tech gets used. Hard to predict us humans. I can't remember the specifics but I think Barbara Streisand liked her dog so much she had it cloned!
While I have not figured out the angle yet, I plan to profile how tech is close to disrupting the business of health. There have been stories for YEARS about young people in the Valley imbedding smart chips inside themselves to do all sorts of things. This ignores everyone who has done this sort of work for the last 50 years and there will be no stopping it. The historic way to deal with disease is to build an animal model, test, test, test, lock up the IP and charge obscene prices after clinical trials.
BTW you are buying a cheap iPhone. I'm sure people spend $150 on a "cool case and a charger" if it is the coordinating correct edgy color.
That was the correct price. First human genome run took 13 years and cost 10+B. For this sort of new medicine it now takes much less than a day. I was figuring iPhones cost even more! I was phone on brain from Anne's story. I buy Google branded phones and they seem silly expensive already! It seems that sooner or later you break them. I have one super old phone that still works great. We save it for when someone in family needs a phone in a pinch.
I love the inverted hockey sticks idea. Very interesting to me that while these new technologies can create new life forms others are spending billions to literally bring back the dodo.
When I first heard the hockey stick description it lets you understand and relate to how hard stuff is the first time, then you get kinda good at it and then no matter how much you try it gets hard to do it better. I agree with you about how new tech gets used. Hard to predict us humans. I can't remember the specifics but I think Barbara Streisand liked her dog so much she had it cloned!
Wow! CRISPR for the price of an iPhone! I'm still trying to wrap my mind around CRISPR, so thanks for this post!
While I have not figured out the angle yet, I plan to profile how tech is close to disrupting the business of health. There have been stories for YEARS about young people in the Valley imbedding smart chips inside themselves to do all sorts of things. This ignores everyone who has done this sort of work for the last 50 years and there will be no stopping it. The historic way to deal with disease is to build an animal model, test, test, test, lock up the IP and charge obscene prices after clinical trials.
BTW you are buying a cheap iPhone. I'm sure people spend $150 on a "cool case and a charger" if it is the coordinating correct edgy color.
I'll be excited to read that post when you write it.
I was referring to $749 --the figure from your first picture--was that not the correct price?
That was the correct price. First human genome run took 13 years and cost 10+B. For this sort of new medicine it now takes much less than a day. I was figuring iPhones cost even more! I was phone on brain from Anne's story. I buy Google branded phones and they seem silly expensive already! It seems that sooner or later you break them. I have one super old phone that still works great. We save it for when someone in family needs a phone in a pinch.