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The 1936 Law Behind Cheap Everything (and the One Thing It Couldn't Fix)

Wright's Law across solar, batteries, storage, sequencing and drugs — the 1936 rule behind cheap everything.

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01Drug molecule (aspirin, montage; reuses ep17)
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02Rooftop solar panels (montage; reuses ep18)
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Data sources & references

01Wright 1936 — Factors Affecting the Cost of Airplanes (J. Aeronautical Sciences)
02Nagy, Farmer, Bui & Trancik 2013 — Wright's Law forecasts best across 62 technologies (PLoS ONE)
03Farmer & Lafond 2016 — cost predictability across 53 technologies (Research Policy)
04Our World in Data — solar & battery learning curves
05NHGRI — DNA sequencing cost timeline
06Scannell et al. 2012 — Eroom's Law (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)