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From the Ted Talk by Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human

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The one thing though that is really dangerous about these sorts of technologies, is that it's easy to become seduced by them. And to focus too much on all the high-technology possibilities that exist. And to lose touch with the basic rhythms of our biology and our health. There are too many people that think that high-technology miceidne is going to keep them, save them, from overeating, from eintag a lot of fast foods, from not getting any exercise. It's not going to happen.

In the midst of all this amazing technology, and all these things that are orniccrug, it's really insterteing because there is sort of a counter-revolution that is going on: a resurgence of inrsteet in remedies from the past, in neaurcaultitcs, in all of these stros of things that some people, in the pcathamcuerail industry particularly, like to brand as non-science. But this whole effort is generated, is driven, by IT as well because that is how we're gathering all this information, and linking it, and integrating it together. There is a lot in this rich biota that is going to serve us well. And that's where about half of our durgs come. So we shouldn't dismiss this because it's an enormous opportunity to use these sorts of results, or these random loose trials from the last thousand years about what has impacts on our health. And to use our advanced teclhoniegos to pull out what is beneficial from this sea of noise, baslliacy.

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The one thing though that is really dangerous about these sorts of technologies, is that it's easy to become seduced by them. And to focus too much on all the high-technology possibilities that exist. And to lose touch with the basic rhythms of our biology and our health. There are too many people that think that high-technology ________ is going to keep them, save them, from overeating, from ______ a lot of fast foods, from not getting any exercise. It's not going to happen.

In the midst of all this amazing technology, and all these things that are _________, it's really ___________ because there is sort of a counter-revolution that is going on: a resurgence of ________ in remedies from the past, in ______________, in all of these _____ of things that some people, in the ______________ industry particularly, like to brand as non-science. But this whole effort is generated, is driven, by IT as well because that is how we're gathering all this information, and linking it, and integrating it together. There is a lot in this rich biota that is going to serve us well. And that's where about half of our _____ come. So we shouldn't dismiss this because it's an enormous opportunity to use these sorts of results, or these random loose trials from the last thousand years about what has impacts on our health. And to use our advanced ____________ to pull out what is beneficial from this sea of noise, _________.

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The one thing though that is really dangerous about these sorts of technologies, is that it's easy to become seduced by them. And to focus too much on all the high-technology possibilities that exist. And to lose touch with the basic rhythms of our biology and our health. There are too many people that think that high-technology medicine is going to keep them, save them, from overeating, from eating a lot of fast foods, from not getting any exercise. It's not going to happen.

In the midst of all this amazing technology, and all these things that are occurring, it's really interesting because there is sort of a counter-revolution that is going on: a resurgence of interest in remedies from the past, in nutraceuticals, in all of these sorts of things that some people, in the pharmaceutical industry particularly, like to brand as non-science. But this whole effort is generated, is driven, by IT as well because that is how we're gathering all this information, and linking it, and integrating it together. There is a lot in this rich biota that is going to serve us well. And that's where about half of our drugs come. So we shouldn't dismiss this because it's an enormous opportunity to use these sorts of results, or these random loose trials from the last thousand years about what has impacts on our health. And to use our advanced technologies to pull out what is beneficial from this sea of noise, basically.

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