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Week 12 [22.01.2018 - 28.01.2018] Our body as a microchip

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As speaker said, we had a global health challenge today, so our technologies are making huge steps forward day by day. A big amount of problems causes the slow process of technologies improvement. As you know, that we can’t get new things, until we don’t utilize old ones. Even making fast changes in technologies make destruction of a well-established system.
When I was 7 years old, I used to have a computer that was bigger than me. Now we are using microchips and microprocessors that are smaller than our hand. Big companies are using electronic devices with tiny chips that are smaller than insects. And what about medical devices? I would say without any hesitation that they are improving faster than any other typical appliance.

So I want to share with you this awesome speech about how technologies can affect on our daily life.

1.What do you think about the speech?
2.How many years we need to implement this kind of microchips to our pharmacies nowadays?
3.What can you say about genetic differences, is it a problem for creating microchips?

Comments

Andrzej Niewiadomski said…
I think that this TED speech was quite interesting ( as almost every Ted Talk :) ).
It's really hard to answer your questions, because I'm not interested in that topic, so I'm afraid I do not have any interesting thing to say.
22 January 2018 at 17:02
Unknown said…
I agree with Andrzej Niewiadomski cuz really for me it's dangerous to understand, and will be interesting for people who know anything about this and understand.
I think it's interesting theme but ыру should know that a lot of people don't understand what she talks. And if this microchip (drugs) is the best solution, why we don't know anything about it?
24 January 2018 at 02:07
Andrii Zinchenko said…
cuz it is a future, why they need to tell you everything about it, when someone can steal it? Just take a look, we have already had a cure for cancer and other diseases, but they are not in a use now, just because other drugs need to be sold out
24 January 2018 at 13:45
Unknown said…
1. Yes, this is a great idea. But it's not the human body. It's similar to it, but not exactly the same. The microchip doesn't think, doesn't do anything, doesn't live like a real human. But it may be better than animal testing or testing in vitro. 6 years have passed since the video has been uploaded. But I haven't heard of anything like this. Have scientists developed this idea or have they got ahead?
2. Probably, more than 6 years :)
24 January 2018 at 22:13
Unknown said…
You are the only who have noticed that video is 6 years old. I heard, that this kind of technology is not improving anymore,but i hope they will continue
24 January 2018 at 22:42
Yevhen Shymko said…
Not sure why but I'm really skeptical about that. On the surface it seems like a good idea but I think the biggest challenge about testing new drugs can't be overcome by such chips. They could never emulate the complexity of how our body works thus cant show real and useful results...
26 January 2018 at 21:10
Yekateryna Petruk said…
Medicine is obviously getting more advanced recently. Microchips allow for better transportation of devices and of course make the operations with smaller parts of our body possible. I was really impressed by what the speech was about, I did not even know how much technology can improve our health issues and make a huge breakthrough into fighting diseases like cancer.
28 January 2018 at 14:09
Łukasz Domeradzki said…
I'm also sceptical. Human body is too complex to simulate it as a whole. Yes, you can simulate every vital organ in it and potentially simulate real-life situations, but we didn't even get a grasp of how human's brain works in depth, and the brain in fact is controlling all of it. It's kinda like simulating a car but without the driver - you can simulate engine, tires, doors, but not actual driving.
28 January 2018 at 18:11
Michał Walewski said…
I think that this speech was very interesting, like most of the topics discussed here. It's hard to answer this question unequivocally, because the human body is very advanced, and each of us is different from each other.
28 January 2018 at 19:20
Maryna Bratishko said…
Thanks to the author for the article, she was very interesting and cognitive. I support any ideas that will help not to test medicines on poor animals. Perhaps these chips should have many subspecies because you can not unite all people under one standard. I'm not sure that in the near future this product will appear in pharmacies and will be available. All this was not sick than innovation, which will be examined from all sides before the introduction into our lives.
28 January 2018 at 20:53
Michał Arasimowicz said…
I think that this speech was quite interesting. It's hard to answer second question for me, because i'm not that munch intrested in this topic. I think that human body is too complicated for this microchips at the moment. We probably need to wait at least 6 more ages to see if it can work. :)
28 January 2018 at 21:44
Unknown said…
That's a very interesting TED talk (apart from annoying speaker though). I support the idea of making such chips for testing. I wonder where does it end, we can have lungs living on a chip, heart, kidney, muscles, a brain... limbs all on a microchip? ;) Must be expensive nevertheless so I wouldn't expect it to storm the market any time soon.
28 January 2018 at 23:18
Magdalena Popek said…
I find this speech very interesting, but I have a very limited knowledge about combining medicine and technology, so it's difficult for me to comment on that.
28 January 2018 at 23:20
Unknown said…
This speech was very good. Most of the TED speeches are of good or very good quality.
it's a hard question. I have no idea... Maybe about 10 years? I think that's enough time.
In my opinion genetic differences, is a huge problem for creating microchips. Human body is a network of very complicated connections...
28 January 2018 at 23:36
Unknown said…
Most of TED talks I've seen have the issue of being really really shallow. I do not people that do them just because they usually aren't experts in the fields they represent. Maybe I am just biased because I don't enjoy the format.
I think that these chips will come to our daily lives by the end of next decade. The technology is improving at the rate never seen by humanity beside cold war and I try to be positive about the future. As Magda wrote I have no idea if genetic differences would be an issue in creating those chips.
28 January 2018 at 23:38
Krzysztof Kanigowski said…
People are creating some crazy medical stuff nowadays. A few years ago I've read about a bandage, that can regrow tissue. The idea was pretty simple, take a piece of tissue and use some acidic substance to remove cells, leaving only the connecting tissue. Later you add stem cells, which depending on how tight you pack the connective tissue form anything from bones to skin. The great thing about it, is that it allows you to recreate organs, normally very difficult to recreate, as they are composed of various kinds of tissue.
28 January 2018 at 23:49
Patryk Pohnke said…
To be honest, I don't know. The biggest issue concerning drugs was the safety factor. Medicine has to be testes for a long time before it is allowed to sell. I don't think such chip can really help in this matter.
I think it is not so difficult technically to produce and install such chip. The problem is elsewhere is it really needed?
I'm not a specialist in that matter, so I have no idea if genetic mutations are problem for such chips.
29 January 2018 at 00:16
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