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In little more than a decade, machine learning has moved from a highly specialized technique to something that almost anyone with data and computational power can do. That is to be welcomed — yet it remains essential that the industry can navigate both the proliferation of tools and frameworks in the space and the ethical issues that are becoming

One of these technologies is blockchain. What’s interesting about blockchain is not cryptocurrency. That’s noise, ripples on the surface of the human economy. To be quite honest, it’s not particularly interesting from a scientific point of view, and it’s not going to have a major effect on humanity.

Thanks to ever-improving techniques, the cost of human genome sequencing fell from $1 billion in 2003 to well under $1,000 by 2022. That is, the price dropped a millionfold in under twenty years, a thousand times faster than Moore’s law. A stunning development hiding in plain sight.