FYI, you may be interested in the following article in Technology Review:

The $100 Genome

Forget the $1,000 genome. Some companies are looking far past that goal to create a really inexpensive sequencing technology.

I can assert with 100% confidence: this news story
is false. Genetic testing will never cost a consumer only $100.
Proof: comparatively extremely simple blood tests
for only one or two enzymes today from Lab Corp
cost a minimum of $181. My prostate biopsy results
cost $2700 from Quest Diagnostics this year.

And costs absolutely never go down - on anything,
any more. Inflation makes everything more expensive
with time.

The only exception to this rule was the short-lived
computer craze of the 1980s and 1990s when prices
dropped on computer-related items - dvd players,
digital camcorders, computers. The only reason
these prices dropped was due to actual, objective advances in technology. Those fundamental advances
in software and hardware technology ended by 2000.

In all other fields of human endeavor, there have been no fundamental important breakthroughs in technology. I am glad I am studying molecular genetics after most of the human genome project (HGP) has been completed. One might be tempted to count the HGP as a “fundamental advance”. But it’s not. It is certainly crucial, necessary, laborious, expensive. But, it is not “revolutionary”. It is thousands of scientists and technicians latching onto the few past revolutionary ideas and laboratory methods
and running with them to fully classify the genome
of one species - humans - and perhaps a few other model organisms (Drosophila melanogaster, Gallus gallus, etc.)

A “fundamental breakthrough” to me means
1) deriving a new, observable, and scientifically falsifiable physical law out of deep
complicated mathematics, rather than simply using
math to play “catch up” modelling new physical laws.

Example: mathematics predicting the existence of
some subatomic particle. Then scientists prove
the existence of said particle in the lab.

2) figuring out how to get around conservation
laws of mass-energy and entropy. Not violate.
By “get around”, I mean, “find a new additional
term or generalization to existing laws which is the key to us doing useful things”

3) figuring out conscious, (nearly) determined control of matter, instead of just relying upon the probability of enzymes and genes to do the work
of placing atoms where we want them to be.

4) making use of some law of physics which has been not been utilized before. Or, making use of some particle of physics - others than electrons and atomic nuclei - or force of physics - other than the electromagnetic force. There’s a whole “particle zoo” - as physicists call it - to put to use.