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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

INTELLIGENCE AND ECONOMICS. "Dramatic changes in the rate of economic growth have occurred because of technological advancement. The economy doubled every 250,000 years from the Paleolithic era until the Neolithic. The new agricultural economy doubled every 900 years... beginning with the Industrial Revolution, economic output doubled every fifteen years... If the rise of superhuman intelligence causes a similar revolution... one would expect the economy to double at least quarterly."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q 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

ENHANCED INTELLIGENCE. "Whether or not an intelligence explosion occurs depends on three factors. The first, accelerating factor, is the new intelligence enhancements made possible by each previous improvement... Further advances will become more and more complicated... Each improvement must be able to beget at least one more improvement... Finally, there is the issue of a hard upper limit. Absent quantum computing, eventually the laws of physics will prevent any further improvements."" " http://lnkd.in/d-_rf2q 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

GROK, founded by Palm Pilot inventor, Jeff Hawkins. “Google’s mission statement is to organize the world’s information. I like to think of our mission as understanding the world’s data." "He has developed a unified theory of the brain’s inner workings and created algorithms for applying the theory to computer science. What’s more, he has open-sourced his work so anyone can use the algorithms and software to build their own machine learning systems — for free."" " http://lnkd.in/dG-uuMk View in LinkedIn

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INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE rather than just seeing the parts. "Systems medicine is an inter-disciplinary field of study that looks at the dynamic systems of the human body as part of an integrated whole, incorporating biochemical, physiological, and environment interactions that sustain life. It considers complex interactions within the human body to promote an individual’s health in light of their genomics, behavior and the external environment."" " http://lnkd.in/dqDBbpQ View in LinkedIn