Comment by 123_abc

I think the quote you are referring to in the article [a] states "At the time, that [the 500 genes already sequenced] was thought to be about 1% of the total, and given the pace of discovery, it was believed that complete sequencing of the human genome would take at least 100 years"

The 'given pace of discovery' I would read as an extrapolation using (then) available technologies, not as a scientific consensus about what would be possible using new technologies in the near future.