AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Not knowing a lot about biotechnology, I read the article and it sounds great, but how big is this as a gamechanger? Can someone comment on how big are the implications of this in, let’s say, 5 years from now, on day to day life? Does this mean that biotech is going to explode? Or just that drugs will come to market faster, perhaps cheaper for rare diseases, but from the same industry structure as always?

I'm pretty sure this means they can pack it up? Or point their infra to a different problem?

What are the immediate real-world applications of this? Just asking, because I have very little knowledge in this area.

Hopefully they give one out for this, if only so I can say I'm a Nobel Prize contributor

This sounds wonderful and frightening. On the one hand, now we can engineer drugs at light speed. But wasn't protein folding supposed to be NP-hard?

Can deep learning find the cracks in P vs NP?

Perhaps making clever guesses at prime factors because it learned some weird structural fact that has eluded mathematicians.

If we break crypto, there goes the modern world. Banks, bitcoin, privacy, Internet, the whole shebang.

(I obviously am not an expert in computational complexity and hope that some domain experts can chime in and assuage my fears.)