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I love this -- it's always fun to think about what aspects of our modern science people will one day scoff at. Some I always consider: - Cures for disease -
by sharkweek 14y ago
I love this -- it's always fun to think about what aspects of our modern science people will one day scoff at.
Some I always consider:
- Cures for disease
- Our understanding of space
- Transportation
- smegel 14y agoYour assuming our descendants aren't living in a post apocalyptic dystopia where civilized society is little more than a fairytale. We may seem like gods to them. And it may be much closer than people expect, perhaps hundreds not thousands of years.
- jchrisa 14y agoor like 10 years
- philwelch 14y agoAs I understand it, almost every cancer treatment consists in gradually killing the patient in such a way that the cancer dies, hopefully before the healthy tissue, and then nursing the patient back to health. If we ever find a better approach, people will be utterly horrified at chemo and radiation therapy.
- carbocation 14y agoThat is true for cancers without targeted therapies. But cancers such as CML, breast cancer, melanoma, etc, all now have targeted therapies against specific molecules (often tyrosine kinases). While alkylating agents, etc, are still widely used, I think it's fair to say that the future that you have described is the present. We have the better approach, and now it's a matter of aggressively pursuing it (which is also happening).