Whilst another bionic body part, fingers, comes available and gives hope to millions of people all over the world I wonder if there is going to be a massive rich poor gap around these items. With socialised medicine coming to ruin the US medical industry and with it already screwing everyone over here who is going to be able to pay for this. I can only see the rich affording it now.
Remembering that back in the dark ages, last week for most of the middle east, kids are having limbs amputated to make them better beggars whilst we will likely be taking less holidays in those parts partly because the whingey whiney greens don’t want us to fly and partly because we won’t be able to afford to. These people can’t get their arms put back on and I suspect that the bionics will be out of financial reach. So how will this impact on development. Why should anyone develop bionic limbs when the death panels, such as NICE (What an inappropriate name), will reject them for cost and we will never get the investors to buy in.
I see us at the edge of a precipice and I’m actually wondering if we are just going to meekly walk over the edge. It would be the end of our chance of advancement this cycle and it will be 50 years before the wheel will turn again and forward lookers are in power.
Its times like these we need some nice friendly aliens to visit. Although I would settle for evil aliens that kill all our politicians before succumbing to the Swine Flu.
Will scientific advancement start slowing down soon?
Whilst another bionic body part, fingers, comes available and gives hope to millions of people all over the world I wonder if there is going to be a massive rich poor gap around these items. With socialised medicine coming to ruin the US medical industry and with it already screwing everyone over here who is going to be able to pay for this. I can only see the rich affording it now.
Remembering that back in the dark ages, last week for most of the middle east, kids are having limbs amputated to make them better beggars whilst we will likely be taking less holidays in those parts partly because the whingey whiney greens don’t want us to fly and partly because we won’t be able to afford to. These people can’t get their arms put back on and I suspect that the bionics will be out of financial reach. So how will this impact on development. Why should anyone develop bionic limbs when the death panels, such as NICE (What an inappropriate name), will reject them for cost and we will never get the investors to buy in.
I see us at the edge of a precipice and I’m actually wondering if we are just going to meekly walk over the edge. It would be the end of our chance of advancement this cycle and it will be 50 years before the wheel will turn again and forward lookers are in power.
Its times like these we need some nice friendly aliens to visit. Although I would settle for evil aliens that kill all our politicians before succumbing to the Swine Flu.