A lot of what Google is doing in life sciences has to do with pursuing earlier, more data-driven diagnostics (eg, http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-designing-n

A lot of what Google is doing in life sciences has to do with pursuing earlier, more data-driven diagnostics (eg, http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-designing-nanoparticles-to-patrol-human-body-for-disease-1414515602 http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-designing-nanoparticles-t...). I'm sure future humans will be horrified to learn that we walked around with barely no meaningful monitoring on our body stats for our whole lives... Only seeking out help when problems got big enough to be visible to the naked eye or bad enough to impair us.