Lecture 5 Limits of Technologies
ZOLTAN SZALLASI: -technologies. And this is kind of the introductory slide. You heard a lot from Zack. I think that was last time, like a week ago or two weeks ago about microarray technology. And I'm sure that he gave an extremely inspirational and enthusiastic talk about the possibilities and scope of this technology. But let me give you just a little this line. So whenever a new technology appears or for example, microarray technology or the Genome Project, of course first, there is a general ebullience and optimism that all problems will be solved within a couple of years. There are lots of reasons for this optimism. One is that you want investors in company and you want public funding. But of course, in a couple of months or years, realistic expectations start to appear. And then you have to start to think about limitations of the actual technology. And actually, that's the reason that we have a talk about this very topic. So when we talk about limitations of...