The decline of the microarray
When can we expect the last damn microarray paper? (http://jermdemo.blogspot.com/2012/01/when-can-we-expect-last-damn-microarray.html)
2016 for the last microarray paper? Sounds a bit optimistic, but we can dream. Of course there will likely be niche uses for microarrays for a while yet (e.g. cheap linkage analysis in a pedigree, as in my last post...) -- the analysis here is just counting usage of the word in the title (presumably indicating the technology is a major focus of the paper).
On being stuck with technology standards
Reposted from Google+
"Because it's never possible to kill technology that's escaped into the wild, we're stuck with it." I like how, among other things, Matthew's write-up illustrates a tangible example of this general truth.
TVs are all awful (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/8705.html)