Guest guest Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 In order to be aware of what may be on the horizon so you may embrace it or resist it, as you will, take a look at http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69206,00.html?tw=rss.TEK Its good to know what our patient's options might be in a few years. These development are happening faster than I expected. Computer power and miniaturization double every 18 months and no end is in sight to this acceleration for about two decades with current materials. We appear to have reached that part of an exponential growth curve in technology analogous (yet not proportional) to what happens when you put a penny in the bank and double it every day. On day 10 you have about 10 dollars. But, in the last 10 days of the first month, value rockets from 10,000 to over 5 million dollars. Lets say that most of the history of technology was that first ten days of the month and we recently made it to day 21. That's when it really gets hairy and changes occur at almost unfathomable rate. If you all you ever knew were the amazing but predictable developments of the 20th century such as electric light, movies, radio and nuclear bombs, you might be pretty impressed with how much occurred in that era. But you could always see what was coming over the horizon. Now what is coming over the horizon is already there before you could even conceive it. Web/Online Coordinator Adult Degree and Graduate Programs Prescott College http://www.prescott.edu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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