Forbes December 14, 2017
As neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran says, “All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.”
Health care and the life sciences are currently entering a wave of innovation thanks to disruptive, computer-based technologies. Paradoxically, the evolution of machine learning, which raises the threshold of intelligent analysis beyond that of the human brain, can teach us more about what it means to be human.
Traditionally slow to adopt new technology, medicine often lags behind other disciplines when it comes to systematic change. As an example, the first paper on penicillin was published in 1929, but it took 14 years before production was scaled in 1943, and only then did the U.S. military decide to fund it to coincide...
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