Smoke, no fire (Score 1)

This article confuses 2 separate issues.

The consequences of genetic knowledge about ourselves may (or may not) have a vast impact on our society.

The people that make the machines that sequence the genes will not. If the machines do the job correctly, then who cares who makes them? If they don't work correctly, they will be replaced by ones that do.

To use the internet analogy - the net itself is having a tremendous impact on society; the fact that it is running on Cisco routers is trivial. If it comes to light that Cisco is exercising some kind of inappropriate control over the internet - watch how fast they come tumbling down!