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Futurists See Longer, Better Life in the Third Millennium
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 1999;281:1685-1686.
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Boston—Assuming the Y2K situation doesn't plunge us into another 700-year Dark Age, the near future of humanity and the ability of medicine to improve health look remarkably bright—at least to a select group of visionaries.
At NextMed2, a conference held here last month to envision the future of medicine, scientists and physicians shared findings, theories, and philosophies that hinted at turning cancer into a manageable disease like diabetes, eliminating cardiovascular disease as a leading cause of mortality, expanding the human lifespan to 150 years, and even reversing the aging process.
Cynics might argue that these hopes are pie-in-the-sky, that predictions from past generations of researchers gazing into crystal balls have promised many of the same conclusions without delivering the real goods. But speaking before the NextMed2 audience, Peter Schwartz, chair of Global Business Network, a cosponsor, along with SmithKline Beecham, of the conference and an international membership . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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