This report investigates the future of medical research from the standpoint of our present ideas of morality, the 'good life', immortality and love. This report takes a look at the technoid vision of life as compared with ideas of happiness and love. Specially fitted ships are laying an increasing number of fibre optic cables on the world's seabeds. Scientists continue to develop faster ways of transmitting data, as engineers devise improved methods of communication. Various hubs around the world control the flow of global information traffic.
Local entrepreneurs face increasing competition.
The gap is widening between those who own information and those who don't, and between countries who possess a wealth of information and those that have little. In a time of limitless real-time communication, knowledge of the past threatens to disappear. While modern medicine has become more precise, gentle, hygenic and undeniably better for patients, many sick people undergoing treatment in the sterile environment of medical machinery feel they've been left alone with their fear. Alternative medicine is attracting an increasing number of practitioners and patients. Robots are taking over in the operating rooms and promise less invasive methods of heart surgery.