Technology and the Future of Medicine: How Will The Technological

Singularity Express Itself in Nepal? Kim Solez, MD

Positive Messages Persuade!

Transhumanism and the Technological Singularity are Related Concepts.

Post-scarcity World of TranshumanismIs Related to Peter Diamandis’

Abundance and to Utopian Singularity Outcomes.

Moore’s Law Predicts Singularity

The Technological SingularityThe technological singularity occurs as artificial intelligences surpass human beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on the Earth. Technological development is taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans cannot even comprehend what is going on. The machines enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new generation of A.I.s appearing faster and faster. From this point onwards, technological advancement is explosive, under the control of the machines, and thus cannot be accurately predicted (hence the term "Singularity"). – Ray Kurzweil

Major Singularity Developments in February 2011

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES OF 2021: DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WILL BE BUT WE WILL BE USING THEM CONSTANTLY, LANGUAGE NO BARRIER, OUR LIVES RICHER.

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.

2045 is only 31 years from now. Many of you will still be working then. What will

medical careers be like then?

“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

Rudolf Virchow on the Social Responsibility of Medicine

Medicine Writ Large“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!

Unique Course on Technology

and the Future of Medicine

LABMP 590 Created in

2011

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Focus Groups in May 2011

Course conceptualized in March 2011, tested with

focus groups in May for its suitability as a

course for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Over Time Our Course’s Sessions Have Developed a Pedagogical

Rhythm, Leading To A Self-organized Structure

Ten minute introduction Fifty minute lecture Twenty minute discussion In the course we talk about

machines replacing many of the functions of human beings. This picture was taken by a machine without human intervention, as were many of the best still images from the course. The video camera is constantly comparing the scene to algorithms and takes still pictures when the requirements of the interesting picture algorithm are satisfied.

Video and Audio Quality Superb Now!

First teaching session 2011 Recent teaching session 2014

Hot-linked tables of contents in YouTube video descriptions at http://www.youtube.com/user/kimsolez allow one to jump right to content of interest.

Director of Social Media at Kandu Inc.

The Normal, Outgoing, Personable Students in the Course are Little by

Little Changing the World! Student Presentation Videos Have

Had Amazing Positive Effects!

Problem of Promoting Civil Discourse Cannot Be As Hopeless as Philippe van Nederveld Suggests. Need Genius of

Youth! Students Doing Their Part!

The young people from my course are little by little infiltrating the discussion groups with normal human interactions and we are already in 2014 seeing an improvement in productivity. It is something that only the young people among us can fix!

Heather Graves, from Department of English and Film Studies, in Faculty of

Arts. Diversity of views and backgrounds is an important feature of the course. Tech

skeptics represented.

Diverse Faculty from Across The Campus Teach in the Course. All Views Represented.

We shoot broadcast quality video of each lecture & discussion. http://www.singularitycourse.com

Previous lectures at http://www.youtube.com/user/KimSolez . Students critique one past lecture, and suggest improvements in presentation and hot-linked table of contents (20% of grade).

Students write one 3,000 word paper (40%) and give 20 min. presentation on same subject (30%). Also graded on class participation (10%).

No required reading. Suggested reading list in course outline, readings suggested by Email.

Course Specifics

The technological Singularity. Existential risks, AI, genomics, and nanotech.

Ways to optimize a positive outcome for humanity in the co-evolution of humans and machines . The influence of these considerations on medicine of the future.

Dean of Science speaking, prominent people internationally. Most lectures not very “medical”. Easily understood.

Balanced view provided by incorporating both tech skeptics and tech advocates.

Course Content

Course Teaches About New Medical

School We Have Created in Nepal

New Medical School Devoted to Rural

Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences,

Annual Consultative Meeting 2011,

Nagarkot, Nepal

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.

Other Innovations New in 2014

Trying to Raise Spirits and Stimulate Interest in the

Singularity Through A New Holiday - Future Day

Edmonton’s First Future Day March 1, 2012. A Small

Celebration.

First Future DayMarch 1, 2012. Sixteen

celebrations Around The World

Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Berkeley, Edmonton, Houston, Hawaii, Sao Paulo, Thanksgiving Point, Utah, Brussels, Paris, LA, Palo Alto, Washington, Carlton, Australia, Wroclaw, Poland

Mature youthful decision making! They can do it!

Students can figure out what our plans should be for Future Day in 2015!

Branding Important Visual Identity – Holi Festival

Branding Important Visual Identity – Holi Festival

Would like the ideas to spread like these colorful pigments spread during the festival!

Crayola Bomb Poem by Robert Fulghum Has

Similar Spirit

Roomba Robotic Vacuum Cleaner – Time Lapse Art

Hot Air Balloons Can Give Similar Appearance

Future Day 2014

Future Day 2014

Great article, but most students don’t read newspapers!

InternetEvolution.com “ThinkerNet Blog” had essays written criticizing Ray Kurzweil by 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?

We Cannot Make It Sound Like One Has to Read Thirty Books to Understand

TranshumanismWhen We Have Bloggers Who Pride

Themselves in Never Reading Any Books!

Nucleated cells in vasa recta. At age 26, just after graduation from medical school, I was a specialist interested in acute tubular injury: Solez, K., et al: Kidney Int. 6:24-37, 1974.

This specialist interest shared by only to a few led eventually decades later to all the very general and diverse things I am doing now.

Five years later I published the definitive description of the pathology of acute tubular injury. Medicine 58:362-376, 1979.

Banff Classification of Kidney Transplant Pathology

Histologic criteria for the diagnosis of rejection and other conditions in the transplanted kidney, began 1991, updated and

expanded every two years in consensus meeting.

Banff Transplant Pathology Meetings

Began in the Transcanada Pipelines

Pavilion at the Banff Centre in 1991, Future Meetings Are Planned

through 2021.

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 (2,550 views per video)

Transhumanism - The Technological Singularity – Dissemination of Ideas

The Big Bang Theory is Watched Regularly by 20 Million People in the US.

Singularity Episode on October 1, 2010

Singularity Episode on October 1, 2010

Singularity Episode on October 1, 2010.

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

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

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

Suggestions on how to capture the imagination of the public to start everyone thinking/talking about

these matters are most welcome.

THE END RESULT WILL BE UBIQUITOUS HEALTH, THE END OF WAR, PEACE AND HAPPINESS EVERYWHERE, ETERNAL

YOUTH. 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 OTHER WORDS, BOUNDARIES, WHAT BOUNDARIES!

In many areas of importance in the future, the

boundaries, limits you may be thinking of may not exist.