Too many topics, too little time

Stein Gives Bioinformatics Ten Years to Live. Lincoln Stein reflects on the role of bioinformatics in his keynote address at the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. [O'Reilly Network Articles]

Here is a link to Lincoln's discussion. It was quite provocative. [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog]

10 years is a long time, a very long time. i'd say 7 tops, that would be around 4 revolutions of computational power and perhaps 2 revolutions in theoretical applications.