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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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So what's the equivalent of the transistor and PC and smartphone in healthcare? Can we invent a new network effect? Like a biological one? A pill that let's your mind access a shared conscientiousness?
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