1. Technology and the Future of Medicine Introduction to Course September 8, 2011
Kim Solez, M.D.

2. Illustrations: Bryan Christie Design
Background: A decade long interest in artificial Intelligence (AI) and co-evolution of humans and machines.
Illustrations: Bryan Christie Design

3. have appeared in videos and TV shows discussing the AI Physician and Existential Risks

4. Major Developments in February 2011: Time Singularity Cover and Watson on Jeopardy!

5. A need to describe how these developments will affect Medicine.

6. Our Book: The Technologic Singularity – From This Moment Everything Changes
Book will be completed in this year, concurrently with the course. Writing partner Nikki Olson, 28 year old philosophy student. We have been working together seven years.

7. Ray Kurzweil definition of technologic singularity
The technological singularity occurs as artificial intelligences surpass human beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on the Earth. Technological development is taken over by the machines, who can think, act and communicate so quickly that normal humans cannot even comprehend what is going on. The machines enter into a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, with each new generation of A.I.s appearing faster and faster. From this point onwards, technological advancement is explosive, under the control of the machines, and thus cannot be accurately predicted (hence the term "Singularity").

8. Course Content 1) The technological Singularity.
2) Existential risks, AI, genomics, and nanotech.
3) Ways to optimize a positive outcome for humanity in the co-evolution of humans and machines.
4) The influence of these considerations on medicine of the future. The roles of nanotechnology, genomics, artificial intelligence, and new communication technology on future medical care, including the “doctor in your cell phone”, medical ethics, and the “democratizing of evil”.

9. the future of health. medicine meets the matrix and neuromancer!

10. Course is unique worldwide
Course is unique worldwide. Ben Goertzel’s summer course in 2010 in sociology at Rutgers had no medical content.

11. Eminent Faculty from Across the Campus Teaching the Course
We are most grateful to our faculty!

12. This CPL course now will help prepare us for January 2012 course for graduate students, taught with team teaching, small group and whole class discussion.
Require students to prepare an exam question and answer for each lecture.

13. Bibiana Cujec and Kim Solez
Technology and the Future of Medicine: Finding Balance in considering the Promise and Perils of Technology
Bibiana Cujec and Kim Solez

14. In our headlong rush into the technologic future we need to be sure the traditional values of medicine are not lost.

15. Patients with limited contact with technology at present must not be left out of plans for the future.