From The Economist.
Hard not to expect a serious revolution out of that trend. Economic revolutions follow those in science, and those in science follow those in measurement.
From the article:
The telescope revolutionized astronomy; the microscope, biology; and the spectroscope, chemistry. The genomic revolution depends on two technological changes. One, in computing power, is generic--though computer-makers are slavering at the amount of data biology 2.0 will need to process, and the amount of kit that will be needed to do the processing. This torrent of data, however, is the result of the second technological change that is driving genomics, in the power of DNA sequencing.