From the preface of the e book World Well being Care Equivalency within the Age of Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Synthetic Intelligence, Edited by Frank Boehm:
For the reason that publication of my first e book (Nanomedical Gadget and Methods Design: Challenges, Potentialities, Visions – CRC Press, 2013), it turned more and more evident that synergies between the concurrently speedy advances in nanotechnology and nanomedicine along with the current exponential progress in synthetic intelligence (AI) would probably facilitate the capability to actualize three envisaged world scale paradigm shifting expertise platforms. Thus, I endeavored to discover these prospects by the simultaneous era of what I think about to be a set of three companion books. The rationale is that I consider these functions might be inextricably linked.
This quantity, World Well being Care Equivalency within the Age of Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Synthetic Intelligence, delves into the potential emergence of an envisaged equitable, cost-effective, non-monopolizable, globally distributed/decentralized AI/QC-driven healthcare system, which might function on protected/safe nested quantum encrypted blockchains. With the attainment of mature World Well being Care Equivalency (GHCE), which could be considerably expedited when superior AI (and shortly sufficient the emergence of Synthetic Normal Intelligence (AGI) and Synthetic Superintelligence (ASI)) are coupled with quantum computation (QC):
we are able to envisage a future world the place any particular person on the planet has entry to the identical superior and value efficient nanomedical diagnostic and therapeutic applied sciences, irrespective of how rich or impoverished they’re, irrespective of the place they occur to reside, or beneath what situations they dwell. Progress towards this purpose might be incremental, with every successive wave of nanomedical applied sciences being extra superior than the earlier wave.
A number of nascent iterations, operational/efficacy trials, and the beta testing of GHCE might be pushed by additional advances in 3D printing. More and more sturdy telemedical infrastructures will start to progressively transition lots of the frequent well being considerations of sufferers (in addition to wholesome people) to be resolved by numerous nanomedical means in their very own properties. These early developmental levels is likely to be guided by readily accessible top-tier on-line physicians on demand, and/or doubtlessly, formally licensed medical AI brokers which have been granted entry (by sufferers and/or their caregivers) to complete information of their medical histories, knowledge, and particular wants. These medical personnel would initially be authorized to prescribe solely sure medicines at particular dosages, which could possibly be safely fabricated in a affected person’s dwelling utilizing envisaged countertop microwave-sized home equipment known as Manufacturing unit at Dwelling (F@H) techniques.
The feedstocks for F@H techniques could initially be comprised of the complete vary of chemical constituents required to synthesize fundamental medicines, in addition to amino acids for the fabrication of therapeutic peptides. With additional technological advances, standardized nanoparticles of assorted species may function F@H feedstocks, that are then customized functionalized, replete with concentrating on molecules, to generate a dynamic vary of excessive precision diagnostic, therapeutic, and theranostic nanoparticles to handle myriad situations (from colds to cancers). Extra superior iterations of F@H would depend on molecular and atomic feedstocks to allow the fabrication of molecular/atomic decision (passive and semi-autonomous) nanodevices that combine nanoelectronics, sensing, communications, and computational capacities. Lastly, the feedstocks of mature F@H techniques could be comprised of pristine atomic species that allow the molecular manufacturing (MM) of autonomous nanomedical robots (~Ø1 μm) at atomic decision which can be endowed with additional capabilities (e.g., propulsion, navigation, and a full armamentarium of cell restore instrumentation).
A strong, massively decentralized healthcare system would, for probably the most half, render hospitals and clinics out of date. Exceptions would, in fact, be these required to accommodate maternity and pediatric wants, deal with emergency trauma instances, pandemic responses, large-scale mass casualties from pure disasters, excessive climate occasions, or as a consequence of anthropogenic conflicts. Damaged bones, critical accidents, burns, and many others. would nonetheless require triaged care. That mentioned, commonest illnesses, and much more critical ailments, similar to cancers, is likely to be eradicated by way of envisioned domestically (F@H) fabricated autonomous sentinel class nanomedical gadgets (Domschke and Boehm, 2018), which might considerably increase the human immune system in opposition to all “non-self” bacterial and viral pathogens, in addition to poisonous brokers. This could considerably scale back the necessity to ever go to a hospital or clinic for remedy (apart from emergencies… albeit even many of those may additionally be quickly addressed sooner or later by sufficiently refined legions of autonomous nanorobots that repeatedly reside inside the human physique (in dwell mode) till instantaneously activated by way of a perceived inflicted trauma).
Moreover, most age-correlated illnesses is likely to be negated, as ageing itself could be addressed by specialised courses of autonomous nanomedical gadgets that frequently monitor the physique for/handle atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, in addition to any irritation, or myopathy. The prerequisite expertise platform and tipping level towards mature GHCE will arrive with the emergence of hypothetical (for now) molecular manufacturing (MM); the subject of my second e book, Molecular Manufacturing: The Way forward for Nanomedicine (Boehm, CRC Press, 2025). It’s envisaged that MM could allow the cost-effective home fabrication of the superior autonomous nanomedical gadgets described above, exemplars of which I articulate in my first e book.
The third e book on this sequence, Nanomedical Mind/Cloud Interface: Explorations and Implications (Boehm, Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2025), explores how a hypothetical (for now) nanomedically enabled mind/cloud interface (B/CI) could endow us with capacities to instantaneously entry the complete breadth of human information, considerably improve our potential to be taught, and allow ultrahigh decision totally sensorial immersive experiences (together with the episodic inhabitation of some other consenting participant on the planet), whereas empowering us to maintain tempo/combine with AI. Consequently, this expertise platform could, in impact, facilitate even additional enhancements/efficacies for MM and GHCE, which from the writer’s perspective would shut the loop. This, as every of those three expertise platforms would probably synergistically cross-pollinate; all with the innate capability to reciprocate. Finally, the broad tech-trusted acceptance and ubiquitous implementation of a mature B/CI could also be nothing lower than the subsequent evolutionary step for humanity, one the place we seamlessly merge with our applied sciences.
To be reasonable and clear, since GHCE would represent such a very huge and multifaceted paradigm shifting enterprise, it couldn’t be anticipated to immediately magically supplant present (2025) medical and healthcare paradigms and infrastructures. Reasonably, it would encourage and herald the emergence of a major evolutionary leap, or certainly, revolution in drugs and healthcare, whereby medical personnel, in addition to medical gadget and pharmaceutical infrastructures, stay engaged, albeit taking part in completely different roles. This, with the intention of considerably enhancing the standard and personalization of healthcare for all of humanity, which might concomitantly be of immense profit planetwide.
It might be the case that GHCE rolls out by way of disparate eventualities, or the mixture of multiples. On one hand, since huge pharma (as an illustration) and different giant companies have already got huge manufacturing infrastructures in place, they may initially be repurposed to generate and provide the molecular/atomic feedstocks required to synthesize myriad diagnostic and therapeutic compounds and functionalized nanoparticles by way of F@H techniques (which themselves would must be manufactured), not just for their current buyer bases worldwide, but in addition to serve virtually everybody on the planet. They might even be engaged with and have a stake within the preliminary growth of assorted courses of nanomedical gadgets (passive, semi-autonomous, and totally autonomous), which might subsequently be fabricated domestically in a massively distributed/decentralized method.
As a result of globally decentralized molecular manufacturing (MM) (by way of F@H techniques) of nanomedicines, and additional downstream, autonomous nanomedical robotics, the centralized management and monopolies over medicine and healthcare would finally fade to obsolescence. Finally, Recykl@Dwelling (R@H) techniques would emerge with the capability to disassemble all method of family wastes all the way down to their atomic constituents, which might then be recycled/repackaged as pristine atomic feedstocks to repeatedly resupply the F@H/molecular manufacturing items. This could shut the loop.
Some could maintain the view that huge pharma, medical health insurance, big medical gadget and medical tools conglomerates, hospitals, and many others. primarily function on the premise of maximizing backside line earnings, or institute cultural paradigms of revenue above all else, which seem unlikely to alter. We will see. Issues inexorably do remodel, maybe induced by the unseen energies of quantum entangled alchemy, adjustments of coronary heart, of conscience, or in any other case.
GHCE may nicely initially roll out in the true world (spanning a sure temporal area) as an extra extension and coalescing of/development in-home healthcare; increasing on typical telemedicine, home healthcare robotics, 3D printing, and many others. As soon as some great benefits of more and more distributed, decentralized, and customized GHCE grow to be more and more evident, related and sensible for the good thing about sufferers, communities, and eventually complete populations who grow to be extra deeply engaged with it, a important mass threshold is probably going be attained and exceeded, after which all method of (perceived as outdated) paradigms will start to fall away.
“Though the attainment of GHCE would certainly be a very extraordinary achievement, we should keenly acknowledge that in actuality, such a large enterprise on a worldwide scale would require intense and sustained excessive spirited collaboration between like minded people who’ve broadly different backgrounds inside various areas of experience. Extremely specialised laboratories, dynamic administrative establishments, regulatory our bodies, and authorities businesses worldwide may also be very important conditions for its realization, as will vital sources and time. We’re all wonderful people, every with our personal distinctive skills and experience which may contribute and be utilized to this noble enterprise. Our working collectively may culminate in a optimistic important mass on a worldwide scale towards the precise realization of GHCE, which might in the end be of profit for every considered one of us, as we’re lastly “all” supported in our pure human proper of optimum well being for all times.”
Frank J. Boehm, NanoApps Medical, 2025
It’s hoped that the possible ideas herein could encourage others downstream to cumulatively create a important mass of targeted intention towards the potential realization of World Well being Care Equivalency for the good thing about humankind and the planet.
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