Technology has changed our lives in so many ways and will continue to do so in the future and at a level that we can’t even conceive right now. Twenty years ago, probably only a few could expect that we would currently be so attached to our cell phones, appealingly named ‘smartphones’ as they gather and manage an unwieldy amount of information about us, our people and pretty much the entire world. Revolutionary Apps keep astonishing us and let’s not even mention virtual reality, which is already knocking on the door… of our houses!
High tech in healthcare and medicine
The same way tech ‘giants’ don’t stop surprising us with new gadgets, it’s fair for us to dream about eventual breakthroughs in other fields, like medicine, resulting from advanced technology. As ‘with great power comes great responsibility’, such top-flight companies are willing to do their bit by investing in health research and ways to implement computer science into treating certain diseases.
For instance, Microsoft has just revealed Project Hanover, an attempt to use AI technology for cancer precision treatment. They expect to be able to create a ‘genome-scale’ database to analyze drug-gene interactions, thereby predicting the most effective drugs against certain kinds of cancers. The company based in Redmond also seeks another goal that consists in programming cells to trigger a response against cancer and other diseases.
Following this ‘trend’, Google Deepmind isn’t falling behind. In February, they signed an agreement with the UK’s National Health Service to create a smartphone App aimed to monitor hospital patients. At the same time, Google Deepmind has started a new project focused on improving the time management of head and neck cancer treatments (basically, by using a detailed map that could allow doctors to administer radiation therapy in just one hour instead of four, as it normally takes).
When it comes to high-tech ‘titans’, there’s a name that easily pops into our minds: Apple. The American multinational has also jumped on the bandwagon and it’s currently expanding its App Healthkit, for the Apple Watch, which will soon be able to track sleep cycles and interpret, not only measure, data regarding the heart rate. Their mission is to provide better diagnoses to users, healthcare professionals and even collect data that could be analyzed and shared between medical centers.
Philanthropy is key
Regardless of what such companies are doing, we can’t overlook the importance of those who have the power/resources to bring about changes and, in this particular case, for the greater good. Philanthropists, remarkable personalities who give large donations to charitable causes, are major assets when it comes to health research. Mark Zuckerberg, chairman of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, set a good example as they’ve just announced the donation of 3 billion dollars to medicine over the next 10 years.
The ‘Chan Zuckerberg initiative‘ is so ambitious that it intends to cure, prevent or manage all disease before the end of the century. Of course, only time will tell if they achieve such a challenging goal, but what’s sure is that a strong effort will be made.
It’s still to be seen whether high tech will actually open up the way for better, more effective treatments. Some put it into doubt since, so far, computers aren’t smarter than we are… just faster. But, again, who two decades ago really thought that we could now be Skype chatting from anywhere in the world?
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