In the future your doctor might call you before you have a heart attack, responding to an alarm sent out by monitoring systems in your body that have detected the precursors to a heart attack hours or days ahead of time. With body 2.0, medicine dosages could be tailored precisely to your body chemistry and metabolism. Real-time monitoring of chemical concentrations in your blood could allow for increasing or decreasing dosages accordingly.
The huge amounts of data that would be accumulated from hundreds of thousands of continuously monitored people would be nothing short of a revolution for medical research and analysis. This data could be harvested to understand the minute by minute changes in body chemistry that occur in response to medication, stress, infection, and so on.
(Via Futurismic.)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
I won't be satisfied until my spleen begins using Twitter.
Body 2.0 - Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body
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"I won't be satisfied until my spleen begins using Twitter."
Ha! Wow... that sounds serious!
For related humor, see "Twouble With Twitter" @ http://tinyurl.com/c8qhtq
A bit sardonic, or mean-spirited, but still pretty damn funny, unless one becomes a twitaddict. 8^}
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