Cost of sequencing a human genome ๐ฌ
โข 2001 - $95 million
โข 2008 - $342,502
โข 2011 - $7,743
โข 2023 - $200 with the new Illumina machine
Cc: @PeterDiamandis@azeem@erikbryn@rtnarch
The US ๐บ๐ธ economy and the EU ๐ช๐บ were roughly the same size in 2008.
The US is now nearly twice as big ๐
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Using "current prices" to make such interpretation is misleading, since the euro depreciated temporarily during that period. On a PPP basis EU GDP per capita was 67.5% of US GDP per capita in 2010, by 2021 that had actually grown to 69.8%.
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The @IEAโs bombshell new report on renewables has incredibly good news.
For example, solar is undergoing a mega boom & may surpass coal by 2027
Below is a ๐งต on genuinely good news on green energy from the IEA & beyond (1/22)
Cc: @Noahpinion@JesseJenkins@ramez@dwallacewells
Europe ๐ช๐บ significantly lags the US ๐บ๐ธ and China ๐จ๐ณ as a tech power.
Data-rich ๐งต below on the economic consequences of tech stagnation for Europeโs prosperity and beyond (1/25)
Cc: @GerardAraud@Noahpinion@erikbryn@paulg
"The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canadaโs worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen." nytimes.com/2023/06/17/worโฆ