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To create a system where consumers are truly in control and can access their data anytime they want, a market-based system like Google’s personal health records or Microsoft’s HealthVault is the way to go. For those who worry that the

It’s easy to understand the techno-Luddite urge for older, less innovative groups of companies to use the law to stop competition, but it is much more difficult to understand why the government won’t step up and make a sensible decision.

Worries that gene testing could create more problems than it solves are reasonable in the short term. Over the long run, however, gene testing and therapy will likely be viewed as “equalizing technologies” just like the Internet or cheap laptops.

The future of human enhancement is rocketing forward, and many people from a variety of disciplines are contributing. Technology is the common driver, but in the end, simply a tool. Tools can be used for good or evil purposes, and

Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, sees both the dark and light sides to the new political environment. “Web 2.0 is the best mass communications medium that’s been invented so far because you can personally direct the issues,” he said. Indeed,

Professor Ron Cole-Turner of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary discussed how life extension could benefit many religious orders. “Technology will inject competition into religion and force religious authorities to clarify what they mean by immortality.” This is important, according to Cole-Turner

Whatever each telecom company does, it appears that the future is in open networks, the kind that are open voluntarily through market forces. No government body forced Verizon to open up its network. It did so because it is in

Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s “donation feed” is reminiscent of the somewhat addictive “newsfeed” on social networking site Facebook, and it appears to have the effect of increasing donations. In a society where privacy is shrinking, it seems many embrace the

As members of the baby boomer generation attempt to retain good health into old age, they have spurred the development of technology designed to keep the mind sharp. While some so-called brain fitness regimens are more helpful than others, the

Hospitals around the country are wary of giving up bodies for cryopreservation. In at least one state, Arizona, legislators have considered making it nearly impossible for individuals to choose to be cryonically suspended. This brings up the universal question of