If Google X succeeds in developing a wrist band that can detect cancer and predict strokes (among other things), I think that will be a moneymaker. On the other hand, it will cause some serious problems from a medical ethics point of view.
How do I invest?
On the hundred year anniversary of Dr. Jonas Salk, am grateful that public health was more important to this nation than corporate wealth, including monetized medical advances small and large, when I was a kid. He spared all of us back then the fear of polio that crippled and killed many.
Google-wrist might be better at strokes than cancer, but expect the false negative and positive rates will end up being intolerably high.
Ethics? Investing? I’m afraid you will find more ethics at a meeting of La Commissione de la Costra Nostra than you will on Wall Street.
On No! Evil rich people end up saving lives!
As you enjoy your warm (or cooled, if your part of the country is still warm) house, and your car, and your clothes, and your food, and your i-phone, and your bed, and your refrigerator, and the veterinarian care for your pets…Let me know if I should keep listing…
Remember…without a profit motive, none of it would be there.
Without government initiatives and investments electricity and clean safe water wouldn’t be in many of those homes, wouldn’t be many roads on which to drive those cars, no public universities to train those vets.
Amazing that the smallpox vaccine, polio vaccine, and internet were developed with no thought to profit but instead public good.
Marie…even Government Officials are motivated by the profit (or perhaps the power)