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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:14AM (#14603945)
> What would you have looked at and thought "That'll be massive in 20 years"

I was on the internet in the early/mid 90s, and was told that "the web" was growing massively and was going to be huge. This was more common knowledge by 1997.

The kind of DNA sequencing that 23andme sells to people for £150 now? It's not "millions of units" massive yet, granted.

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by jrm5100 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:28AM (#14604079)
It may be millions of units by now- it was 1M about 2 years ago (https://www.genomeweb.com/microarrays-multiplexing/1m-custom...).

Minor nitpicking: the 23andMe kits use microarrays for genotyping, not DNA sequencing. It's an older and more limited technology but it is much cheaper than sequencing.

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