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There’s an old military adage.

Generals always fight the the last war.

Rows of men executing Napoleonic tactics were mowed down by increasingly accurate and sophisticated weaponry in the American Civil War.

Gallant European cavalry units galloped into World War I battlefields to meet tanks and machine guns.

World War II generals saw Vietnam like a conventional battlefield, even though it was anything but conventional.

After reading a Discovery Channel report, I’m convinced we’re fighting the last war on health care.
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The entire computer industry was pretty much gestated in garages around the world. And everyone was pretty happy.

Now, a genetic engineering revolution is taking place in home labs and garage workshops, according to an article in MSNBC. This is an example of how exponential technologies are knocking not on the door to our future, but to the door of our present.

And the jury is still out on whether this is a good thing… or a bad thing.

On the positive side, home brew genetic engineering will open up the massive potential of the innovative nature of individuals. Far from the office politics and bureaucratic nature of the pharma and biotech industries, people will be able to investigate and invent on their own.

On the scary side, some researchers are worried that, just like the computer industry spawned the computer virus, this new power could lead people to invent lead to new diseases. And, they point out, the resulting virus won’t just disable a computer; they could create a catastrophe, like a home brewed plague.

I choose to believe the benefits will out-strip these negative effects. The people who create viruses are minuscule compared to the number of people who use computer technology for good.

And, hopefully, we’ll have people create anti-virus solutions, just like we have anti-computer virus tech.

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