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Q. I find it kind of sad that " technology" has become synonymous with luxury, materialistic, unnecessary, goods, and not also associated with advancements in fields that are necessary for our health and well being. You're far more likely to hear about an advancement in tv watching than you are to hear of one in cancer prevention, diagnostics, etc. But why? Why does there seem to be such a stagnancy in medical technology a well as almost a neglect in it? Is it because the healthy public doesn't care one ay or the other? There is no funding for it? It's technology that lacks entertainment and thus is pointless? What exactly is missing in society that more attention isn't paid towards it. Imagine if society put as much attention toward advances in cancer treatment and prevention as they do towards cell phones. We probably would have had a cure a decade ago.
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"technology" has become synonymous with luxury, materialistic, unnecessary, goods, and not also associated with advancements in fields that are necessary for our health and well being
~According to whom, exactly? Your observations?
You're far more likely to hear about an advancement in tv watching than you are to hear of one in cancer prevention, diagnostics, etc
~Not true. Just yesterday, one of the big stories on the news was the little girl in Mississippi who has been cured of HIV.
But, news caters to what holds a reader's/viewer's attention. Read better magazines and websites and you'll find all kinds of info in advances in medicine.
Why does there seem to be such a stagnancy in medical technology a well as almost a neglect in it?
~ Again, not true. Lol, not even close. Companies spend hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars trying to find the next big drug or device. In the last few years, the best ankle replacement device came on the market after millions and millions of dollars in testing. Old ones sucked and the new ones are life changing.
Imagine if society put as much attention toward advances in cancer treatment and prevention as they do towards cell phones.
~ We put more money towards penis pills and national defense, BY FAR, than we do towards cancer research.
We probably would have had a cure a decade ago.
~ I wouldn't go that far, but remember, we HAVE come up with a cancer vaccination. Gardisil, the HPV vaccination, prevents certain types of cervical cancer.
I'm not going to say that we should sacrifice TVs for cancer cures. We can't even sacrifice 'gun rights' for the lives of children. I will say that more focus needs to be on prevention of things like cancer - via diet and exercise. Stronger education, stronger reprecussions, stronger aversions to get people away from "fries for $1". Tax the snot out of meat, cheap calorie dense fast food, and cheap processed crap and teach people a REAL food pyramid, not one that requires a chunk of beef, a glass of milk, and a potato for each meal.
"technology" has become synonymous with luxury, materialistic, unnecessary, goods, and not also associated with advancements in fields that are necessary for our health and well being
~According to whom, exactly? Your observations?
You're far more likely to hear about an advancement in tv watching than you are to hear of one in cancer prevention, diagnostics, etc
~Not true. Just yesterday, one of the big stories on the news was the little girl in Mississippi who has been cured of HIV.
But, news caters to what holds a reader's/viewer's attention. Read better magazines and websites and you'll find all kinds of info in advances in medicine.
Why does there seem to be such a stagnancy in medical technology a well as almost a neglect in it?
~ Again, not true. Lol, not even close. Companies spend hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars trying to find the next big drug or device. In the last few years, the best ankle replacement device came on the market after millions and millions of dollars in testing. Old ones sucked and the new ones are life changing.
Imagine if society put as much attention toward advances in cancer treatment and prevention as they do towards cell phones.
~ We put more money towards penis pills and national defense, BY FAR, than we do towards cancer research.
We probably would have had a cure a decade ago.
~ I wouldn't go that far, but remember, we HAVE come up with a cancer vaccination. Gardisil, the HPV vaccination, prevents certain types of cervical cancer.
I'm not going to say that we should sacrifice TVs for cancer cures. We can't even sacrifice 'gun rights' for the lives of children. I will say that more focus needs to be on prevention of things like cancer - via diet and exercise. Stronger education, stronger reprecussions, stronger aversions to get people away from "fries for $1". Tax the snot out of meat, cheap calorie dense fast food, and cheap processed crap and teach people a REAL food pyramid, not one that requires a chunk of beef, a glass of milk, and a potato for each meal.
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