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Yup. Great article overall until the bit you quoted.

Sure, it has the _potential_ to transform personal genomics, but the (insanely cool) T2T project is indeed almost exclusively an academic one.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think academics are wired to automatically produce such declarations of Greater Societal Impact simply because of how we, as a society, have decided to allocate resources for scientific research.