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You mean in the last 20 years? Yeh, it was super fast.


Yes, that is what I mean.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but 20 years is a very short amount of time if you look back on the history of the advancement of engineering and our understanding of the world. It's very exciting, especially when you look at how little the basic operating concept of computers has changed in the same timeframe.


As someone outside the industry it _appears_ [emphasis there] to have gone from "we can take a few weeks and test you for a specific disease susceptibility" to "place your finger here and then grab a coffee ... sorry for the wait, OK we have details on 100 different diseases now" in a matter of 2 or 3 years.




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