Soon, It Will Cost Less to Sequence a Genome Than to Flush a Toilet

I'm always a little wary of predictions that try to tell me when the "game-changers" are nigh. I have no doubt that we live in incredible, historic times - I'm super psyched about it.

At the end of the day, though, I think that the cost of flushing a toilet is too high for much of the world. 1 cent? Maybe in my purchasing power here in the first world. There are plenty of other people who, to be crude, don't have a place to shit, and it's worth a lot more than 1 cent to them to have that fixed. If anything, that's the takeaway here.