THE END OF YOU

I think the big battle in this regard in the 21st century will be between privacy and health. And health will win. Most people will be willing to give up their privacy in exchange for much better health care based on 24 hours monitoring of what’s happening inside their bodies.

I guess very soon people will walk around with biometric sensors on or even inside their bodies and will allow Google or Facebook or the Chinese government or whoever to constantly monitor what’s happening inside my body.

So that the day the first cancer cell starts to multiply and spread, somebody at Google or at the health authority will know and will be able to very easily to nip the cancer in the bud.

And the day that a flu epidemic starts, they immediately know, oh, a flu epidemic is starting, and they know who are the people who are carrying it, and they can take very effective and quick and cheap action to prevent it.

So the promises are enormous. Just think of, I don’t know, a place like North Korea. People walking around with these biometric bracelets and you walk into a room and you see a picture of Kim Jong-un on the wall and something happens to your blood pressure that the algorithm correlates with some bad emotion like anger and that’s the end of you.