It's quite a yarn to suggest Gordon Moore's article from decades ago directly set the stage for tracking genome costs like it was some grand plan.
Really, it’s more like saying my neighbour buying a car in the 70s directly led to my bus pass today; you need so many other turns in the plot for that to make sense.
Without huge leaps in molecular biology and computing that Moore couldn't even dream of, his "law" would have been just a curious observation, not a blueprint for mapping human DNA.
It's a lovely story, but it forgets all the other characters and their struggles that truly made the later developments possible.