May 2, 2026

The 75-Million-Fold Price Drop That Never Reached Healthcare

Tech is the ultimate deflationary force of our time. Since the Apollo era, compute got 75 million times cheaper, while U.S. healthcare got 44 times more expensive. Moore’s Law made everything cheaper; Eroom’s Law made it expensive again. But the same forces that bent the cost curve on hardware are now coming for services – and AI might finally bring deflation to the one sector that has resisted it for half a century… Read more