Monday, December 8, 2008

CHapter 18 - The business of science

Our lives are moving more and more into the Internet: chatting with friends, keeping diaries (blogs), learning (e-learning), watching videos, listening music, doing business and also making science. Countries who are using and owning better technical equipment in any arbitrary area have advantages over the people who have less.
Let's say that scientists discover some sort of new technique how to cure specific cancer and they invent special tool for it which also assume that you have some other parts before you can start using new invention. IF poorer countries/areas/hospitals can't afford these expected parts, then they do not have the opportunity to help people.
There are systems in the hospitals, where are listed illnesses one person have had in one database. Whoever doctor one is visiting, then the data is always accessible. But if poorer countries/areas/hospitals can't afford the databases and everything that comes with it (management, service providers.. ) then again the quality (in this case the doctor's awareness of illnesses) is not so good.

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