Kim Solez, MD

Increased risk of nuclear war.

Lack of progress on global warming.

Rise of ISIS. Lack of understanding of ISIS by world leaders creating very dangerous situation. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ ISIS shuns politics, is against progress, wishes to return to seventh century conditions, would be opposed to Future Day, does not seek wealth, would not want UN representation, looks forward to final apocalyptic battle, end times, doomsday.

According to one of Frost's biographers, "Fire and Ice" was inspired by a passage in Canto 32 ofDante's Inferno from the 1300’s, in which the worst offenders of hell, the traitors, are submerged, while in a fiery hell, up to their necks in ice: "a lake so bound with ice, / It did not look like water, but like a glass ... right clear / I saw, where sinners are preserved in ice.”

In an anecdote he recounted in 1960, prominent astronomer Harlow Shapley claims to have inspired "Fire and Ice”. Shapley describes an encounter he had with Robert Frost a year before the poem was published in which Frost, noting that Shapley was the astronomer of his day, asks him how the world will end. Shapley responded that either the sun will explode and incinerate the Earth, or the Earth will somehow escape this fate only to end up slowly freezing in deep space. Shapley was surprised at seeing "Fire and Ice" in print a year later, and referred to it as an example of how science can influence the creation of art, or clarify its meaning. (From Wikipedia)

All natural disease may be eliminated, leaving

only man-made diseases. But that may leave

as much for physicians to do as there is today!

Challenging responses to bioterrorism and

stem cell technologies.

Focus of medicine no longer disease but

enhancement, elevating the human condition,

which will extend beyond the physical to the

moral and spiritual.

Social responsibility an important aspect of

medicine and one of the focuses of the course.

“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation. Physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.”-Rudolf Virchow

“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else than medicine writ large. Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligations to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their practical solution.”

– Rudolf Virchow

Assume the primacy of global health!

Telemedicine and “doctor in your cell phone” main uses of technology!

Director of Social Media at Kandu Inc.

Medical student elective participation in course.

International peer review of YouTube videos, modifications made. Two Quantum Biology lectures.

Young person old person point counterpoint lecture January 30th, Abdullah Saleh/Earle Waugh Medical Ethics in a World of Robots (What will we allow when everything is possible).

Collaboration with Disruptive Technologies in Medicine course in Budapest, Hungary, the only other course somewhat like this one.

Student feedback extremely positive in Fall 2014, all 5’s!

Flipped classroom sessions with well know people by Skype, very successful with Jonathan White.

InternetEvolution.com “ThinkerNet Blog” had essays written criticizing Ray Kurzweilby people who had never read any of his books.

And people criticizing Peter Diamandis’ Abundance by people who had never read the book.

Frustrating. What is the worst you can imagine happening in this circumstance?

Robots will not be completely autonomous, just as we are not completely autonomous.

They will need things from us. People they can trust will have high status in society. It

will start with human decisions about who to offer intelligence enhancing brain implants

to, which people to make into cyborgs. In the best case those decisions are made on the

basis of optimizing benefit to society and the world. There will be a new job of learning

how to help robots, as they harmoniously coevolve with humans.

The image of the death of Roy Batty in Blade Runner and the “tears in rain” speech will

become the background of our thinking about our responsibilities to robots. We have a

responsibility to keep them alive once they have memories like we do, a sense of self,

and live “lives with meaning”, which benefit society and the world. Robot human

relationships will be a subject studied in school, the basis for a new human profession of

robot liaison. If all goes well this will be one the most respected human professions.

The climax of the classic Sci-fi film "Blade Runner”.

Roy Batty (1:48):

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.] Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [coughs] tears in rain. Time to die.”

http://youtu.be/NoAzpa1x7jU

Nova program on PBS Television (7 million viewers)

Big Bang Theory (the TV show; 20 million viewers)

Singularity Summit/Singularity 1on1 (9,000 views per video)

Kim Solez – Technology and Future of Medicine Course LABMP 590 (2,900 views per video)

We need the mainstream public to regard the Singularity as fact, not fiction.

We need to promote organized thinking about the future in Universities and beyond.

We need to make efforts to make Singularitianismaccessible and inclusive, with low barrier to entry, incorporating young people, and balanced views/diversity. “The Singularity for Dummies!” Assume global health is primary link with the Singularity.

UP UNTIL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT 72, ISAAC ASIMOV REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS BEING “IN MY LATE YOUTH”.

A SIMILAR SITUATION FACES ALL OF US BUT THE “YOUTH” WILL CONTINUE WELL BEYOND AGE 72 AND ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS BROUGHT ABOUT BY TECHNOLOGY WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT SUSTAINS IT!

In many areas of importance in the future, the boundaries, the limits you may be thinking of may not exist. Apocalypse is possible but so is Utopia! Let’s work toward Utopia!