The evolution hopefully will be like the genome-mapping, it began with super slow and expensive projects, and now it has super fast sequencing for a couple of hundred bucks (or less)
Don't count on it. As a child, I read books printed in the 1950s that said fusion was 10 years off. In the 1980s, fusion was 10 years away. I bet that in the original draft of this article, fusion was 10 years away, because they make no predictions at all about it. Some wise and kind old editor, remembering the Fable of the Flying Car (which is also always 10 years into the future), took out the prediction.
I see, well, about the flying car I believe it would not have such a good market. I hope cheap electricity will sooner or later have a decent market!