Genetic Future (and again), John Hawks and FuturePundit have all touched upon a new Steven Pinker piece in The New York Times Magazine, My Genome, My Self. If you read all the weblogs which talk about personal genomics, I suspect we'll look back at this era like those who read PC Magazine in the early 1980s must feel right now. The future is often bigger and stranger than we perceive from the present, and the near future is often more banal than the more exaggerated propagandist might assert. Pinker's strength as a scientific intellectual is the ability to distill these sorts of truths into engaging prose, and the added angle of using his own genome as a window into the possibilities of personalized genomics is a definite value-add. It seems that he used several different tests from different companies for varied purposes:
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