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After 2001: Our Neotech World



The 1918 Spanish Flu as it was called because of its extraordinary devastation in Spain, actually started right here in the United States and infected 25% of our population and killed one out of every 50 infected Americans. Scientists and doctors said in the 1990s that logistically "we were due" for another killer strain. In fact, in 1976, we survived a great scare -- a false alarm, or perhaps more apropos, a fair warning: A soldier at Fort Dix, New Jersey got the flu and died. The medical world was stunned when the virus taken from the dead soldier was a descendent of the 1918 killer flu. The medical world braced itself for another catastrophe of unthinkable proportions. But by the grace of God, the deadly swine-flu virus that made the jump from pigs to humans was an isolated case unable, this time, of passing among humans. This time, we were lucky. Next time...

Only super rapidly advancing new technology could prevent a "next time". The race was on. The new technology of genetic engineering had the potential to permanently and universally stop deadly viruses and bacteria. The problem with this promising new technology in the late 20th century, however, was that it was not super rapidly advancing. Remember, Neotech is super rapidly advancing new technology. Simply put, the way things were in the late 20th century, we would lose the race and live to experience a great human catastrophe.

The following brief review from the same issue of Time Magazine tells of new technologies pursued in the late 20th century by doctors, scientists, and businessmen (but again, missing the key ingredient of super rapidly advancing):

Counterattack:

How Drugmakers Are Fighting Back
(A Review of Time Magazine Article)

"Doctors and the public were not alone in feeling cocky about infectious disease a decade ago. The drug companies did too," so began the article. "More than 100 antibiotics were on the market, and they had most bacterial diseases on the run, if not on the verge of eradication." The pharmaceutical industry simply modified existing antibiotics to stay one step ahead of the bacteria. But that approach no longer worked. So, researchers were turning to new technologies to get back in the lead against disease.

One dynamic approach was called "rational" drug design. Scientists studied the molecular structure of a bacterium, particularly the active site of the enzyme used by the bacterium to fight off the antibiotic. Next, scientists attempted to design a molecule to "plug up" the active site of that enzyme. Without the effect of that enzyme, the bacterium would once again be killed by the original drug.

A similar concept was being pursued against viruses. You see, viruses caused their destruction by invading our bodies' living cells. To invade a living cell involved receptor sites, like little hooks, where the virus joined. Similarly, a molecule could be designed to block the receptor sites so the virus remained harmless to our bodies. ...So went the search for such defendant molecules through combinatorial chemistry.

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Again, the problem with such new medical technology in the late 20th century was that it was not super rapidly advancing...not like it should have been, not like, say, computer technology. How, then, did our country finally get medical technology to super rapidly advance to stop the human catastrophes in which some of your very own loved ones possibly died?

As I witnessed during the Third Vision, the catastrophes forced us to see reality and depoliticize our country, particularly once fifty million people had been exposed to the Six Visions. Two dynamics happened by depoliticizing medicine: 1) private research funds poured into medical research, and 2) endless entrepreneurial energy and creativity poured into medical research. Then, the geniuses of society drove unburdened super technologies into unimagined new dimensions that eradicated the most complex diseases. If not for depoliticizing medicine, then many tens of millions would have died.



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