&gt; At the rate things have been progressing, fundamental medical miracles aren&#x27;t years or decades away - they&#x27;re perhaps centuries away... but I hope to be proven wrong.<p>This is a natural reaction, specially when you see how fast things have advanced in tech. But in medicine, in order to really get the big breakthroughs we dreamed about years ago, some tools were required, and technology has only recently given us these tools: genome sequencing, stem cell manipulation, CRISPR&#x2F;Cas9, open standards for eHealth, etc etc<p>So, I&#x27;d say there&#x27;s hope, as many predict that the slope could be exponential...