Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars

Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by skybrian on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:19PM (#2690325)

You're picking some bad examples for future growth. Instead, look at the problems people really want to solve.

I'd pick health care as something that's just going to keep growing. As long as people have health problems, there will be a market for attempts at solutions. As the rest of life becomes more affordable, more money can be spent on this.

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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by sbierwagen on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:42PM (#2690385)

Advancing technology might eliminate some diseases, and make treating others trivially easy.

Note that nobody dies of smallpox anymore. That disease no longer exists in the population, it has been eliminated. IBM Watson will (eventually, kinda does now) automate diagnosis. Respirocytes[1] would eliminate decompression sickness, and make it pretty hard to bleed to death, with a medic handy. A Vasculoid[2] would eliminate bleeding entirely, as well as blocking all blood-borne diseases, by the simple expedient of replacing blood with something else.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte

2: http://jetpress.org/volume11/vasculoid.html

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Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars by skybrian on Thursday June 23, 2011 @08:19PM (#2690467)

Well okay, in the really long run, perhaps health care will someday be a solved problem. But that's not going to happen without lots of market growth and investment in the meantime.

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