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SYSTEMS MEDICINE. "Systems approaches will transform the way drugs are developed through academy-industry partnerships that will target multiple components of networks and pathways perturbed in diseases. They will enable medicine to become predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory, and, in the process, concepts and methods from Western and oriental cultures can be combined."" " http://lnkd.in/dmY-vqC View in LinkedIn

LEROY HOOD PIONEERED SYSTEMS MEDICINE. "Systems medicine has provided striking new insights into the dynamics of disease; it has pioneered the development of new technologies, the translation of big data and a focus on personalized data clouds; and it has pushed the creation of new strategies for dealing with disease. These approaches are employed for blood diagnostics —lung cancer and PTSD. Systems medicine has reached a tipping point that is already changing the practice of healthcare."" " http://www.pr.com/press-release/523560 View in LinkedIn

LEROY HOOD MD PHD. "is a pioneer in the systems approach to biology and medicine. His research has focused on the study of molecular immunology, biotechnology and genomics... He has played a role in founding more than fourteen biotechnology companies, including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Darwin, The Accelerator and Integrated Diagnostics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. He has published more than 700 peer reviewed articles and currently holds 36 patents."" " http://www.pr.com/press-release/523560 View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES (III). The man-machine fusion is truly underway. We can control the body of another human or animal, and can control machines half way around the world by thought alone. Steven Hawkins is an emblem of the emerging applications. We have extended speed of access to infinite information by the internet and devices. We are being increasingly hyper-connected to people and objects. We are at a turning point of human abuse of the planet and a sustainable future. The rate of technological change has never been faster. View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES (II). We are in the Post-Genomic era, trying to apply this mountain of genetic information. We will carry our genetic code on our smart phones. Personalized Medicine will change the medical paradigm to patient-centric and preventative, not reactive, care. It will matching our personal genetics to the correct drug. Digital medicine offers cost efficiencies, with point-of-care data and diagnostic access, and efficiencies of remote solutions. All at a time when the costs of care are unsupportable and the Silver Tsunami is upon us View in LinkedIn

WE LIVE IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES (I). We have created life, which may be the single most astonishing achievement of the century. Biology is in the Programming Epoch, making the fruits of evolution infinitely plastic to meet complex human needs. We are making test-tube organs, ending the organ black market, and inevitably any sanitized blood and immune cell for medical purposes. View in LinkedIn

FUTURE SHOCK. "In 1970, computers were still primitive, but the PC and the global internet were on the horizon. That year, Toffler published Future Shock, in which he argued that the rate of technological change would soon become so great that people would be left disoriented, disconnected and alienated, suffering the eponymous disease. Toffler argued that civilization was about to move from the industrial age to the superindustrial age – now more commonly known as the information age."" " http://lnkd.in/dJVR5w6 View in LinkedIn

BILLION FOLD SMARTER. "Based on conservative estimates of the amount of computation you need to functionally simulate a human brain, we'll be able to expand the scope of our intelligence a billion-fold.' (Google's Ray Kurzweil)." " http://lnkd.in/dW2DUGT View in LinkedIn

UPLOADING YOUR MIND. "We'll be uploading our entire minds to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years - an event known as singularity. Our fragile human body parts will be replaced by machines by the turn of the century," leading to human immortality. http://lnkd.in/dAM2VhW years.html#ixzz2j7F52oht View in LinkedIn

RUPTURE OF HUMAN HISTORY. Google's Ray Kurzweil concludes that "technological progress follows a pattern of exponential growth, following...the "Law of Accelerating Returns". Whenever technology approaches a barrier, new technologies will surmount it. He predicts paradigm shifts will become increasingly common, leading to "technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history". http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q View in LinkedIn