Time Ranks 50 Top World Changing Inventions…
And the winner is 23andMe, a genetic testing service co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. 23andMe markets a genetic test that uses saliva to determine a person’s predisposition to 90 inheritable traits.
Really? 23andMe didn’t invent the saliva test, they just market it at an affordable price ($399). This is the most important “World Changing” invention of 2008? Really???
And what methodology did they use to select and rank these planet-altering inventions? According to Lev Grossman, Time Magazine editor, who helped compile and rank them, “the group added ‘a completely gut-based instinctive judgment’ about how the 50 inventions ranked in terms of importance.” Gut-based judgment? No shit?
Perhaps that’s how the game Spore wound up #20 on the list. I mean, I like the game, but it hasn’t changed my world yet.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Wojcicki and Brin have made no secret of the fact that the son they are expecting in November has an elevated risk of Parkinson’s disease, as does Brin, according to testing by 23andMe.
Would it be too snarky to ask if they tested their son for the evilness gene?
