LABMP 590: Technology and the Future of Medicine — Lecture 1
Dr. Kim Solez gives the introductory lecture in the Technology and Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 on January 8th, 2013 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Table of contents:
1:24 Student presentations March 2nd and in an evening at end of course
3:23 intro to song
3:55 Joel Crichton Singularity song
6:45 two categories of students
7:48 technological Singularity,10:15 focus groups
10:45 history of course
11:35 no shielding from the truth
12:15 natural rhythm of teaching sessions
13:20broadcast quality video
14:25 perfect photography carried out by machines without human intervention, camera compares scene with ideal algorithm and shoots automatically when specifications are met
17:14 hot-linked tables of contents on YouTube for course videos
18:45 faculty diversity
21:10 Jonathan White lecture on course website began with a song
23:10 course specifics, basis for grading
26:30 books
29:30 social responsibility of medicine
30:25 balanced view incorporating skeptics
31:40 student presentation session on Future Day weekend following March 1st Joel Crichton concert at Wunder Bar or Artery
32.50 student numbers increasing exponentially, 34:19 our own exponential,35:42 MOU with Udacity, 37:02 audience heterogeneity
38:15 Marcus Hutter, Rebecca Kendrick
41:25 How many people should we try to reach
43:35 human insignificance
49:15 Foxconn 1 million workers being replaced by 1 million robots
50:45 we could eliminate all disease and still have a terrible world
52:13 social responsibility of medicine, Virchow quote was written when he was 27
54:02 course absolutely unique, we need to figure out how it can best provide unique benefits to students
57:00 lecturers in this course extremely convincing to listen to, but have conflicting predictions, some of those predictions are going to be absolutely accurate, we just don’t know which ones! It is very healthy for us to be exposed to these various scenarios
59:35 Moore’s law, does not work as well in medicine, apps not used
1:01:18 Need skill at interpreting the really big picture
1:03:00 discussion
Copyright (c) 2013, Transpath Inc