Just add water. We can't cure cancer, but we can find new and creative ways to throw toxins into the air and water. We have computers that can calculate the fractal math of a cloud formation, but we can't keep track of our children or even make sure that someone who needs hospital care can get it. Profit drives our technology and, as I said in an earlier column, it also stops it. About attempts usually end quietly and unobtrusively as they are tucked under the corporate blanket of net gains.
Pharmaceutical companies do.
I am seeing many of the things that were promised in the future, but I see them as toys that are only meant for the rich and the privileged. I see the future controlled by a profit motive, a handful of CEOs and investment analysts. For research and advancement to happen today, it seems we need, not only a good idea, but a tidy profit and a long-term consumer base. But, we can make sure the top 10 to 20 percent of its consumer base has some great toys. Now, this might seem like some pretty out there happy-crappy, but stop and think about the reasons why you see people in the hospital that are suffering and dying or someone panhandling on the street, or you breath in a cloud of toxic gas as that SUV speeds by you.