Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
by sbierwagen on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:42PM
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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.
Re:Nevada passes law authorizing driverless cars
by skybrian on Thursday June 23, 2011 @08:19PM
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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.
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