FACTS

1665

A microscope shows Robert Hooke something no one had ever seen: cork is built of tiny rooms. He names them cells.

1952

Rosalind Franklin exposes Photo 51, and a molecule of heredity sits still long enough to be seen. The double helix follows within the year.

1977

Frederick Sanger reads a virus, all 5,386 letters of it. Genomes become text.

2003

The human genome is finished: thirteen years and three billion dollars for one sequence. Two decades later, the same read costs a few hundred dollars and takes an afternoon.

2021

AlphaFold predicts in minutes the structures that crystallographers spent careers on, and within two years its database holds two hundred million of them. The decisive experiments of drug discovery begin to run in silico.

2022

ChatGPT launches, and a hundred million people learn to talk to a machine in its first two months. Intelligence stops being a human trait and becomes a utility.

2026

Large language models start doing research of their own. An AI solves the planar unit distance problem, open since 1946. This is the year of the singularity.

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The first medicine discovered entirely in computation reaches a patient.

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