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Military-industrial complex —> MIT Hacker scene/PDP-1 —> Silicon Valley —> personal computing —> internet —> tech bloom Healthcare-industrial complex —> Quantified self/fitbits? —> ?? —> personalized medicine —> “Internet of bodies” —> healthcare bloom
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Feels like the next great American bloom will happen in heathcare somehow Remember, the tech revolution emerged from the military-industrial complex, with its radars, missiles, and mainframes The healthcare industrial complex (HIC) is in a state similar to the MIC in the 1950s
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The cost of running a wetlab is falling because you can order inputs piecemeal and send samples away to outside tests. There’s a shared wetlab in downtown Brooklyn. It’s like a machine shop/makerspace.
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The problem is cost of delivery though. Becoming a doctor is like becoming a 1950s punch card programmer. The equivalent of a PDP-1 would be a truly empowering unregulated healthcare device that can improve general health in a DIY way