Images: MIT predicts tech to jump-start economy
by ZDNet Author | June 3, 2008 4:00am PDT | Image 7 of 7
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Live longer through better tech
Mehmet Fatih Yanik , assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT, said technologies will bring about an era of personalized and preventive medicine that will significantly extend people's lifespan--in our lifetime. Technologies include small-module therapies and organ replacements using stem cells, he said.
"Beyond the scientific and technological hurdles, temporary challenges will include the cost versus benefit of these technologies, legal and ethical concerns, and regulations," Yanik wrote.
That prediction makes a case for those household robots.
Shown here is an illustration of research
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