Remember, kids, those vintage SNP chips may be worth something someday…
Remember cycle sequencing? No? Remember grunge?
Jeez Louise, you’ve got to wake up pretty early to beat these folks to the punch. Anyway, as they point out, the September/October issue of Technology Review features an opinion piece by yours truly:
As a participant in the Personal Genome Project, I’ve been asked more than once, “So…what will you do with your genome?” I have two boring stock answers, at least for now: not much, and I don’t know. But I do want to learn about my genome. I see personal genomics as akin to the first personal computers. What could we actually do with the Commodore 64 or the Apple II? Word-process? Occasionally. A bit of Lotus 1-2-3? I guess. Mostly, I remember software crashes and hardware freezes. In my house we managed to play a lot of solitaire and Minesweeper.
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
August 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I do remember cycle sequencing, - grunge - not so much. Excellent piece, - keep it up.