
Chapter 30
The road ahead
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the
hope of today and t he reality of tomorrow.
—Robert Goddard
30.1 What next?
This book barely scratched the surface of the things that can be achieved using
microarrays. This is a very new field even by the standards of the 21st century.
Ten short years ago, there were a handful of laboratorie s using this technology.
Today, most life scientists are familiar with microarrays and thousands of
laboratories are us ing them routinely. Beca use of the bre athtaking speed with
which this technology has been adopted, and the large number of researchers
just entering ...