Jan 13
I was lucky to have followed the link in my Freakanomics RSS feed to listen to a talk by Dr. Craig Feied.
The key point made by Dr. Feied is that the amalgamation and analysis of wide ranging data – including from the emergent fields of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc. – within computer models could foster a much better, and possibly, as forecasted by the current trendlines, a complete understanding of human ailments.
Dr. Feied’s talk begins at 37:50: