{"id":1586,"date":"2011-01-11T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:18:54","slug":"from-charlie-stross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"From Charlie Stross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess a hazy understanding of genomics (well, it&#8217;s probably even more vaporous than &#8216;hazy&#8217;), but this from the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross\/dp\/0441012841\"><b>Accelerando<\/b><\/a>&#8216;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/12\/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html\">list of things to feel good about<\/a> makes me think I should try again to wrap the mind around the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s been enormous progress in genomics; we&#8217;re now on the threshold of truly understanding how little we understand. While the anticipated firehose of genome-based treatments hasn&#8217;t materialized, we now know why it hasn&#8217;t materialized, and it&#8217;s possible to start filling in the gaps in the map. Turns out that sequencing the human genome was merely the start. (It&#8217;s not a blueprint; it&#8217;s not even an algorithm for generating a human being. Rather, it&#8217;s <b>like a snapshot of the static data structures embedded in an executing process<\/b>. Debug that.) My bet is that we&#8217;re going to have to wait another decade. Then things are going to start to get very strange in medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess a hazy understanding of genomics (well, it&#8217;s probably even more vaporous than &#8216;hazy&#8217;), but this from the author of Accelerando&#8216;s recent list of things to feel good about makes me think I should try again to wrap the mind around the subject: There&#8217;s been enormous progress in genomics; we&#8217;re now on the threshold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}