If it does come out, it'll probably cost $9,000,000.00 anyway. A lot of places won't be able to afford it. Anyway, research scientists are making incredible advances in diagnosing cancer with circulating cancer dna blood testing. They can even tell if the tumor is primary or metastatic through a blood test now! Maybe that will make glass slides obsolete before they can get this thing to market.
It's interesting though. We're at the stage in robotics roughly equivalent to the 1940s computer. In the 1940s, you would build a computer for one thing. If you wanted a range finder, you built a range finding computer. If you wanted a decoder, you built a decoding computer. Then the concept of one computer that could do many different tasks with different software came along. So now, you can decode, play games, communicate, edit video, etc., All with the same computer. Right now, most of the robots in the world are either welders or painters in car factories, some vacuum floors. Here's a robot to section paraffin blocks. Single purpose. But soon, sooner than we think, probably, we will have a single robot that can weld your car, vacuum your floor, section your blocks, cook you dinner in a Michelin star restaurant, and do heart surgery much better than any human surgeon. Then, there won't be any need for histotechs. Or welders, or surgeons, or chefs, or... Jay _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
