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gmig on Feb 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scans reveal intricate brain wiring

"Only 50 such scans have ever been done."

"The aim the $40m programme is to map the entire human neural wiring system by scanning the brains of 1,200 Americans."

protothomas on Feb 17, 2013 [–]

Look at what happened with DNA sequencing[1]. Linear extrapolation isn't always the best predictor of progress.

[1] http://www.dnasequencing.org/history-of-dna

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