The US is the unquestioned technology leader in complex medical devices, advanced patient care, and pharmaceuticals research. It is ironic that the more we innovate with medicine, the more expensive our healthcare system becomes. Increasingly, the sickest 10% of our population consumes the lion’s share of our total healthcare expenditures – estimated by some at …
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Today, I delivered the keynote speech at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London. Here’s the gist of my message:
When I gives speeches about the exponential growth of information technology, I like to quote Dr. Jonas Salk. He predicted nearly three decades ago, “We are at the beginning of an evolution greater than Darwin ever imagined.”
In 1995, a few months before he died, I had breakfast with Dr. Salk, who was so much more than a medical researcher and virologist. He was a brilliant man, an original, whom The New York Times called “the father of bio-philosophy.”
I returned recently from an intensive, energizing three days at Singularity University, a unique educational concept founded in 2008 to, as the school’s mission says, “assemble, educate and inspire a new generation of leaders who strive to understand and utilize exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.”
I experienced several “aha” moments in the company of a very well-informed faculty and a very technology-aware audience.