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The fees for which just dropped to zero.
What costs are exponentially dropping?
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#32Don't forget the follow up: Which products/services are now becoming viable or much more attractive as a result?
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#33Barely aged electronic devices, like laptops, phones, TVs, etc.
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#34TVs are still getting cheaper, amazingly. I didn't think there was much lower they could go, but $500 buys you more and more TV every years - and that's in nominal dollars, not counting inflation, so the effect is even more pronounced.
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#35- Costs of delivering mass to orbit.
- Nanotubes
- Graphene
- Internet costs (I'm pretty sure it's dropping faster than exponentially)
- CDN and storage in general
- Many medical procedures
I expect meat prices to collapse in the next 10 years.
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#36Laptops were for a while, but then stopped once they hit parity with desktops.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> -hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.) Uh, GitHub really wasn't the first to offer free hosting, and it's definitely not something of the "last couple of years". Geocities has been doing that since 1995 and I don't know if they were the first. Moreover, GH Pages is super limited, others allow you to run dynamic scripts (PHP being the most popular). I never heard of Netlify b…
No, netlify is basically a fancy-ish github pages.
So... static shared web hosting? Or does GitHub Pages do something I don't know about?
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#38To those that say DNA seq; although the cost to perform the actual sequence has dropped, there are still a ton of overhead costs in acquiring and managing any genomic data. Context - product platform guy at biobank.
My impression is that the cost of the actual sequencing has dropped so much that it is the overhead costs that now dominate.
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#39The exponential part is going to trip up most of this. In the best scenarios you might get that for a very short duration of time in a segment and then see a continued, very slow decline in costs. Space launch costs, thanks initially to SpaceX pressure. Wireless and wired broadband access costs per bit continue to decline persistently globally. Satellite broadband costs are about to do a hard one-time plunk as Starli…
Solar, memory chip, etc. had exponential declines for over half a century, so it's not always "a very short duration of time".
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#40Laptops were for a while, but then stopped once they hit parity with desktops.
There's probably some limits to the cheapness. I think hard drives are going to be always at least $35 no matter how small the storage space is just because of the parts and manufacturing.
I wonder what those parts are for a laptop.