Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Taking on Death
Google recently announced that they're starting a new company to extend the human life span, and I applaud them for their efforts. Medicine seems to be one area where technology has failed to make the same impact as it has in other fields. Machine learning is used everywhere from advertising to predicting stocks, weather and enzyme functions. Medicine, with all of the personal data collected on millions patients, is severely lagging behind. The human genome project was completed over twelve years ago, with personalized being hailed since the 90's as the future of health care. Relatively few people have since seen the benefits of personalized medicine. With our technology today, with all of the data we have, we might not be able to prevent death, but we can certainly do better than we are doing now.
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I think extending human life span is an excellent and much needed area of research as well. It is even more interesting to me that Google wants to tackle this challenge. Maybe they'll get me an extra decade to live by the end of their research.
ReplyDeleteI think extending human life span is an excellent and much needed area of research as well. It is even more interesting to me that Google wants to tackle this challenge. Maybe they'll get me an extra decade to live by the end of their research.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting, if anyone can do it.. Google can.
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ReplyDeleteWe actually have made a lot of progress since the human genome project. It just turns out that understanding the human body is like understanding legacy code, and often changing one thing to fix a problem causes several unexpected changes. I hope Google is successful, though.
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