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will.i.am wrote in The Economist in 2019, ‘The ability for people to own and control their data should be considered a central human value. The data itself should be treated like property and people should be fairly compensated for it.’39
Between them, these four prescriptions – transparency, interoperability, rights and commons – amount to a wholly new way of thinking about the relationship between citizen and market.
One firm, Moderna, managed to produce the first vials of its vaccine on 7 February, 31 days after the sequence of the virus was initially released.
The meningitis vaccine took 90 years to develop, polio 45 years, measles a decade.
The risk is that reduced costs lead to gross increases in consumption.