But really nice to see commercial companies picking up this technology.

Bri’s remark presupposes that each of these companies thinks this stuff is viable and also detrimental to their own interests.

I wonder if they think about it at all.Some companies will, most will miss or dismiss this possible inflection point, if history can be relied upon to make such predictions at this very moment.

Like always, many companies will be swept away by the changes which usually accompany technological breakthroughs.

A big company may swallow the company mentioned here -with mischievious intent- but progress won’t be halted for long.Other groups, maybe in other countries, will spread these technologies instead.In the end, you guys will get them too.

But thinking that all parts of an industry act like one (which is -probably even in the wondrous land where there are companies who are people- illegal) is a strong mark of conspiracy theories.Other signs are excessive use of personal pronouns, mostly plural ones (like they), abstraction instead of concreteness and trying to encompass almost everything.

Having reach these heights of abstraction, THEY would explain everything by saying exactly nothing.

Btw: Taken to its logical conclusion, Ray’s “vision” come true would make all these things irrelevant in the long run.In this sense, ph companies would have no future anyway.It would not be a matter of if, but when they go down.

Of course, in the meantime people may die who could have been saved.Philosophical arguments about whether the singularity -even in its most positive outcome- would kill you (and others) set aside, there is one thinker in this field who allegedly hopes to bring back is deceased father.So, maybe we can bring back people later, and only patience is required, and people aren’t really lost.

Even if ph companies delay progress in some fields for some time, this would therefore only be a drop in the vast ocean of time before us (all), signifying nothing.

Of course, such a vision warrants the comparison with religion.

But at least the medicine will be out there. They are not going to drag their feet on this, not when there is money to be made. They are going to get this into clinical trials as fast as the law allows, and that is good. The environment is full of carcinogens pumped out by big energy and big chemistry. Do you notice that whenever an old-time artist dies (today I’m thinking of Dave Brubeck who died in his 80s yesterday of cancer) they don’t die just because they got old. It’s often cancer that gets them.

Someday you might need one of these new molecules from Parabon, God forbid that you should, but it’s always a possibility for any one of us. We just have to be happy that these new treatments are in the pipeline.

Remember the graphs in Ray’s book, “The Singularity is Near.” All the lines of projected progress go off-chart up to the right by the year 2046. We have to live until then to see the Sing. It’s going to be a rough, up-hill slog, but you just might be the one to do it, melajara.

I’m feeling more and more uneasy facing the daily revolutionary news pouring out here and the lame statu quo on medications and procedures dispensed on your typical (and aging) hospital most probably facing cut after cut in staffing and budget with the ensuring drop in quality of life support for the patients.