I’m going to be attending TEDMED this year. I think we’re at a crucial juncture for health, where in my lifetime we’ll look back at our treatments today with the same wonder as we have when contemplating medicine before the understanding of germs. I have a feeling TEDMED will be the best spot to get a glimpse of this future.
Very good to see you going to another TED related event.
http://www.tedxauckland.co.nz is on here soon along with other Tedx events in Melbourne, Sydney, Osaka and so on. They are starting to spread like wordcamps 🙂 and trying out new ways formats.
BTW – very good to have you in NZ for wordcamp. Thanks again.
Just be sure to skip the presentation by Ezekiel “old people with dementia shouldn’t be given treatment” Emanuel.
What if medicine and health-care do not coincide? Health & Care … I have a feeling the key to both is hidden in the past and lost in the future.
I didn’t know about this conference, I read the headlines of the lectures and I didn’t sense any hope… it seems like an entire existing branch of health-care (usually referred to as “alternative medicine”) is absent….
health is maintained (or neglected) every day of your life, medicine is something you (currently) meet only when something goes wrong… it’s just so opposite… oh well.
I will be looking forward to hearing your experience of this.
If you can, try to make it out to BIL:PIL as well (http://bilpil.com). There’s already some great speakers signed up, and I’m interested to see these important issues discussed in an open format.
It’s one of the many BIL unconferences that occur next to TED (http://bilconference.com).
Great! If you’re going to be at TEDMED, you might want to stop by BIL:PIL as well — it’s a free unconference on the subject of innovation in the health/medical field.
http://bilpil.com — online registration just started!
I’m jealous!
That looks like an amazing conference. If it’s anything like the TED conference it’s got to be.
I can’t wait to see the videos from the conference 🙂
I’ll see you there. The lineup looks amazing.
Aubrey de Grey is an interesting character. (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html).
He brings Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy to mind though he isn’t a futurist per se. What an interesting time we live in!
Hello,
My name is Phil Niles, and I too will be attending TEDMED. So, I figured I would give a quick hello, and say I look forward to meeting you in a little over a month!
– Phil Niles
Hey Mat,
This post and the one you wrote on Starting a Bank continue to linger with me, and set me thinking about how I would start a Health Care system.
Though I have nothing to show for it yet – I thought of you when I again saw this video. I would put on a “required viewing” list for anyone who is interested in the future of health care: http://www.iamronen.com/2010/01/proteins-prayers/
Hello Matt,
My wife sent me this this short video – and I thought of you and this post as I was watching it:
http://www.iamronen.com/2010/07/some-things-are-once-in-a-lifetime/
All Things Good
Ronen