I have hardly mentioned about my work on this blog which remains a platform for rants against the established interests. I am excited about the new developments in Radiation delivery to eliminate cancers to a large extent. Till to date, we have no clue as to how radiation works. Frankly, most of the conventional concepts that we hold true arose from classical experiments that are stepped back in time. Clearly, they have historical importance but nevertheless, they must give way to newer ideas and thoughts. The next 5 years would revolutionise the way we learn about the cancers and various means to over come them. It is a constant battle and I feel that Man might just not have an upper hand.
This was prompted by an article in the limey newspaper on grid computing. Ideas have led to development of grid computing and although Internet is “young” in terms of it’s acceptance in mainstream, there is a clamour for replacing the existing backbones with so called grid computing. In simple layman’s terms, it is the combined power of isolated computers that help in parallel computing. The potential spin offs are amazing. You could soon watch high definition television on your computers via broadband networks (may be porn if you fancy). Or latency in gaming would be a thing of past, at least for the Indian consumers.
It is this interesting parallel that I found worth mentioning here. Ideas have the potential to change your outlook as well as your response to them. Radiation Oncology stands at the cusp of new dawn where each incremental output leads to more questions than answers. This is what I like the best about my work. It constantly stimulates and challanges me to think out of the box because conventional is so boring. For the same reason, I feel that the best out there in the world should be there for us with Open Access. As soon as you allow free flow of ideas, it has the potential to cause socioeconomic changes across a wide spectrum of the community.
This is highly idealised way of looking at the things but I have a belief that things would change for the better. Perhaps some day, we might be able to have effective cure for most of the medical diseases. Do you know that there is NO effective cure for common cold despite all the advances that we have made in sending a man to moon? We are still in the dark ages as compared to the potential.
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