The Next X Prize

BlueCup writes "The X Prize Foundation, sponsor of a widely noted 2004 award for developing a reusable rocket suitable for private space travel, says it is now teaming with a wealthy Canadian geologist to offer $10 million to any team that can completely decode the genes of 100 people in 10 days. And that's not all. As an encore, the winning team will be paid $1 million more to decode another 100 people's genes, including a bevy of wealthy donors and celebrities. Already accepted for future decoding: Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G. Allen and former junk-bond king Michael Milken."

Comments

This is the beginning of the end

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe MY genes are worth decoding too, despite the fact that I'm not a C-level executive at a Fortune 500 company.

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! Where only the obscenely rich can afford immortality for themselves and their families, and the rest of us are left out in the cold... we are called "invalids" with an icy, sneering indifference by the wealthy, geneticly gifted sons of Paul Allen and Larry Page.

Wake up people. There's a war on the horizon and the denying this technology to us proles us is going to be a major weapon.

I'm sponsoring a prize too

[Anne_Nonymous]

I'm sponsoring the XXX prize for two women willing to accept my genetic code at the same time.