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What do we have and what do we need?
Proposed clusters so far:
From Guesswork to Automated Nutrition (Brad)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:?(ex: happiness psychology/neuromodulation/ persuasion (including behavioral economics, role of networks as social contagions)
3-D food printing, nutrigenomics, psychology, biomonitoring
From Computational to Biological Previews (Brad)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
(ex: happiness psychology/neuromodulation/ persuasion (including behavioral economics, role of networks as social contagions)
regenerative medicine, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine
Biopolitics and activism of stress and inequality (Brad)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
(ex: happiness psychology/neuromodulation/ persuasion (including behavioral economics, role of networks as social contagions)
Regional planning, neuroplasticity, genetics/epigenetics, communications, public health
From Longevity to Labyrinth (Alex)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:?Longevity/life extension (technology, social implications) - The increasing ability to repair, regenerate, and supplement our bodies will lead to a redefinition of life goals and community support.
(prosthetics, regenerative medicine, 3-D tissue and organ printing (organovo, wakefield institute), rapamycin (immunosuppressant drug causing late-onset rejuvenation in mice), resveratrol, vitamin D3, fish oil, cryonics, DIYBio movement
From Self-Experiments to Life-Doulas (Alex)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:?Quantification and Self-Experimentation (benefits, disruptions) - Increasingly passive monitoring of diet, sleep, mood, exercise, biomarkers, and other body systems will lead to intelligent systems for implementing optimal lifestyles.
(self-organized clinical trials, n=1 experiments, smart phone apps, portable devices including accelerometers, ubiquitous non-invasive biomarker monitors/sensors, GPS, genomics/proteomics/metabolomics, participatory research, bioinformatics, collective/interactive data visualization and sense-making)
21st Century Quarantines (Jake)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
pandemics-quarantine-public health/technologies of extension (sensors, feedback, ambient communication)/network behavior and social contagions
(also: infection disease previews “the pre-sick”, preemptive quarantine, childhood environmental stress and adult disease, quarantining food)
Neuropolitics of Subjective Measurements (Jake)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
new Subjective measurements (wellbeing + mental states)/ neurocompetitive national policy (neurocapitalism)/ neuro-identity politics (neurotypicality-neurodiversity-cosmetic neurology)
Translational research and evidence-based medicine in a time of resilience (Rachel)
DISCIPLINES/TOPIC:
Health care, pubic health, information, food
Translational research/New forms of cooperation/Pathways to markets?Subheading: Evidence based medicine in the time of resilience
Total: 8
What are we missing? Particular areas of S&T? Different clusters?
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Some things we've talked about before but may not have considered in this context. [vbd]
I think augmented reality is on our list, but will virtual reality still be playing a role? health previews (simulations/visualizations)
ubiquitous sensing/wearable sensors, etc., combined with wireless technology -- feedback loop for behavior change (see, eg www.futurepundit.com/archives/006174.html)
(also has clinical, medical applications)
gaming technology
biomechatronics (my old favorite)
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Other ideas - help forming them into clusters? [AC]
- AI doctors (upcoming XPrize)
- doc-in-a-box at-home blood biomarker monitoring to predict disease before it happens
- rapid vaccine discovery
- human microbiome project (we are more bacteria than human, and learning how to modify our bacterial inhabitants can alter our immunity, fat storage, mood, etc)
- Privacy/security/surveillance/ownership of health data
- Nanomedical robots - respirocytes, microbivores, chromallocytes (beyond 10 years though)
- injectable nanosensors
- designer enzymes
- programmable drugs (e.g. insulin)
- epigenomics - understanding gene expression during development, in different tissues, in disease states
- first free-living synthetic life form
- bio-manufacturing - a seed to grow your house or your Nikes
> Or bioMEMS, like designer enzymes, living machines in your body to... for ex, produce insulin (/MLA)
- discovering the biological basis of memory
- genomic medicine - targeting cancer therapies based on genome (already happening)
- personalized stem cells
- brain-computer interfaces - applications to disability
- lab-on-a-chip, non-invasive amniocentesis
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Clusters identified at earlier meetings:
- food engineering/longevity/disease prevention
- neuroscience/informatics/
- regenerative medicine/biofeedback/persuasion (behavioral economics)
- Decision support/ biofeedback/persuasion (behavioral economics is an element of persuasion)
- sensors/infomated bodies/visualization
- urban design/social structure (work/school)/kinesthesiology
- Anytime, anyplace data-mining/Abundant mobile computing/Augmented reality (rachel)
- Cosmetic neurology/prosthetics and mechanical augmentation (this is where kinesiology might come into play) / regenerative medicine (vivian)
- Probabilistic medicine/ health care workforce/?
- Global pandemics/simulation/public health
- Urban design/ Exercise / brain plasticity (I’m trying to get at creating healthy learning or cognitive environments)