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Within the next 150 years, we’ll probably turn most diseases into something treatable as we slowly acquire knowledge. Of course, imagine if we started rapidly
by melling 8y ago
Within the next 150 years, we’ll probably turn most diseases into something treatable as we slowly acquire knowledge.
Of course, imagine if we started rapidly acquiring knowledge, I’d be saying within 75 years.
Your choice.
- Consultant32452 8y agoI wonder if "science" generally suffers the same plight that is discussed in The Mythical Man Month. I suspect it does.
- galangalalgol 8y agoIf you know what you need to do you can only split the tasks to a certain granularity without losses. But if you don't know what you need to do, then you can have large number of independent teams trying different things with no penalty.
- melling 8y agoSo, you think science one big problem that we’re trying to solve? Personally, I’d say it’s more like millions of smaller problems.
- Consultant32452 8y agoIt's not clear that doubling the research funding from the NIH results in twice as much qualitative output. That's all I mean.