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We're 8000 million people.

We can, and always will, work on many different things at once.

The amount of people who can actually work on anything meaningful in this field is double-digit at best. Sure, if you add up "many different things" you have plenty of people who can work on plumbing, programming, and gene editing. What are you going to do for geneCAD? Right, absolutely nothing. It doesn't matter how many of you there are; you could be 8000 million or 8000 trillion people and still accomplish nothing.

This assumes things are static. There are millions of programmers now, but certainly weren't 100 years ago.

The tools to investigate this will get cheaper and easier, driving more people into the field hoping for the next big win, a big payout, or just to make an impact.

Anyone can make a small circuit design have have a fab print it for you. The same could happen here, all you need to do is provide the sequence

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