|
|
A Secured Future
Future of the common worker
With technology developing everyday, there are no limits for the extent to which i information technology and information & communication technologies could help the masses. As we set up more tech centers in villages and remote areas, there might come a day when it becomes common for a farmer on a farm in Kerala, India to consult an agricultural engineer in the USA. Communication and Wi-Fi networks will facilitate an uplink for farmers to satellites for live weather prediction.
Future of the student
Students, equipped with their laptops, may be able to exploit the full potential of all the different textbooks which would have been digitized and will be to access databases of different topics set up around the world and fully exploit the internet. Digital maps would guide people to the nearest health facility, or the nearest school.
Instant mesh networks would allow rural-folk to be connected to the rest of the country perpetually, effortlessly bypassing any breaks or problems in physical connections.
Future of Gene Therapy
The future of gene therapy largely depends on the amount of research that takes place in the coming decades. As per predictions, gene therapy will help remove birth defects and diseases like Asthma which last life-long. With gene therapy we may be able to improve the human immune system, and fight diseased like AIDS more easily. Gene Therapy is closely linked with other forms of Genetic Engineering, and has thus a very bright future ahead. Nanomedicine and its applications require as per current predictions would require a very good infrastructure and would involve a lot of expenditures.
Future of Nanomedicine
If nanorobots are as successful as scientist claim they would be, the whole idea of health care would change. When treating patients, doctors wouldn't need to worry about cutting through tissues to perform a big operation. We have molecule-sized machines to get the job done for us. But for the infrastructure, Nanomedicine wouldn't be very expensive. Direct funding for nanomedicine projects has begun, and the US National Institute of Health received funding in 2005 to set up four nanomedicine centres.
The future of Gene Therapy largely depends on the amount of research that takes place in the coming decades. As per predictions, Gene therapy will help remove birth defects and diseases like Asthma which last life-long. With Gene therapy we may be able to improve the human immune system, and fight diseased like AIDS more easily. Gene Therapy is closely linked with other forms of Genetic Engineering, and has thus a very bright future ahead.
Nanomedicine and its applications, as per current predictions would, require a very good infrastructure and would involve a lot of expenditures. If nanorobots are as successful as scientists claim they would be, the whole idea of health care would change. When treating patients, doctors wouldn't need to worry about cutting through tissues to perform a big operation. We have molecule-sized machines to get the job done for us. But for the infrastructure, Nanomedicine wouldn't be very expensive. Direct funding for nanomedicine projects has begun, and the US National Institute of Health received funding in 2005 to set up four nanomedicine centres. All of us at Virtual Clinic think there is a lot of scope for the development of this new science.
The future of stem cells
Stem cells could be used to understand stages in human and embryonic development. They can be used, more importantly, to study the way undiffrentiated cells diffrentiate as some of the most serious medical conditions such cancer and birth defects occur due to abnormal cell diffrentiation.
They might be used to test new drugs. As an example, cancerous cells could be grown and if drugs are tested on these,we might one day be able to find a cure for cancer and identify medications which have no effect.
Stem cells could be used to "grow" specific organs for those who need transplants. This is a very importent application as today supply of such organs does not meet the requirements of the human race.
Stem cells may one day be able to effectively treat and cure diseases such as stroke, osteoarthritis, spinal cord injury and diabites.
These cells could also be used improve the lifespan of livestock, once a way is developed for thier use on a large scale.
Possibility enables hope
   « Envisioning a secured future
All of us at Virtual Clinic think and hope, that one day our dreams for the world will come true, because they can.
|
