Additionally, I think a lot information on reducing the likelihood of cancer is readily available, and even well-publicized – but most people don’t want to disturb their lifestyles.

I don’t think we’re anywhere near Bridge Two yet, let alone Bridge Three. I just can’t see Bridge Two starting off until the 2060s or 2070s, due to the Complexity Brake.

But this decade is supposedly supposed to be the ‘revolution’ in genetics, and it IS only 2012 after all…a ridiculous amount gets done in a single year (think of all we’ve seen this year alone), so we may very well see such fat receptors, and all sorts of other incredible biotech before the decade is up.

Of course, he also says that this decade will be “Bridge Two” – when genetics will reach it’s peak and people will ‘reprogram’ themselves and all sorts of things…so if he turns out correct, then we will have something to enhance ourselves in the meanwhile until nanotech (“Bridge Three”) starts to pick up steam.

As a whole…nanotech is simply not here yet – all these headlines are good news though because this is the basis for things we will see in near-future — I wouldn’t say that it has neither to do with companies refusing them or the tech failing….it’s just too early for nanotech to be considered practical, nevermind mainstream.

The side taking the new therapy is not always the winning side. Rarely, but sometimes, nasty side-effects are discovered, and those on merely the traditional medicine fare better.

They do not make placebo groups if the medicine being tested is almost certainly better than what is currently available, or if there is no current treatment – in such cases they merely see if the drug works or not. It does not have to compete versus current practice.

And yes, it comes, you are enrolled.

You patiently submit to the protocol, you go several more times to the hospital than on a regular therapy and submit yourself to sometimes painful or humiliating examinations, but you are full of hope, you believe in the treatment.

But after 2 years you die.

Of course, you were put in the control group, wasted all that all too precious time on placebo!!!

This is haunting me: in blind or double blind studies, what can be done to ensure to be on the good side?

Per protocol, seemingly nothing, it’s all lottery.

I’m waiting for and hoping for big advances that I can see and feel in the doctor’s office, or even better, at home, on body 24/7 monitoring to smart systems like IBM Watson, etc…and yes I’ve read about IBM’s efforts to develop Watson into Iphones.

Thanks for all the hard working scientist and let’s get those great ideas out there to the public. I know you will do it. I do believe in Ray Kurzweil’s “the singularity is near”, but wonder who will receive its benefits in the end considering the history of life on earth.