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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, 10-30-10, "Researchers Engineer Miniature Human Livers in the Lab," October 30, 2010, http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2010/Researchers_Engineer_Miniature_Human_Livers_in_the_Lab.htm.

9 almost certainly become the model for medical care

"Personalized Medicine," USA Today, January 20, 2011.

10 volume of fine-grained information about every individual

"Do Not Ask or Do Not Answer?," Economist, August 23, 2007.

11 reduce medical errors and enhance the skills of physicians

Farhad Manjoo, "Why the Highest-Paid Doctors Are the Most Vulnerable to Automation," Slate, September 27, 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/will_robots_steal_your_job_3.html.

12 "all are subject to radical transformation"

Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, p. 243.

13 unhealthy behaviors in order to manage chronic diseases

David H. Freeman, "The Perfected Self," Atlantic, June 2012; Mark Bowden, "The Measured Man," Atlantic, July/August 2012.

14 digital monitors that are on-and inside-the patient's body

Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, pp. 5976.

15 leads to an improvement in the amount of progress made

Janelle Nanos, "Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to Be Human?," Boston, February 28, 2012.

16 will see their progress or lack thereof

Freeman, "The Perfected Self."

17 global access to large-scale digital programs

John Havens, "How Big Data Can Make Us Happier and Healthier," Mashable, October 8, 2012, http://mashable.com/2012/10/08/the-power-of-quantified-self/.

18 living systems are also being applied to the human brain

Matthew Hougan and Bruce Altevogt, From Molecules to Minds: Challenges for the 21st Century, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Inst.i.tute of Medicine, 2008.

19 prosthetic arms and legs with their brains

a.s.sociated Press, "Man with Bionic Leg Climbs Chicago Skysc.r.a.per," November 5, 2012.

20 curing some brain diseases

Meghan Rosen, "Beginnings of Bionic," Science News 182, no. 10 (November 17, 2012): 18.

21 mapping of what brain scientists call the "connectome"

Olaf Sp.o.r.ns, a professor of computational cognitive neuroscience at Indiana University, was the first to coin the word "connectome." The National Inst.i.tutes of Health now have a "Human Connectome Project." Ian Sample, "Quest for the Connectome: Scientists Investigate Ways of Mapping the Brain," Guardian, May 7, 2012.

22 greater than that required for mapping the genome

Hougan and Altevogt, From Molecules to Minds.

23 technologies necessary to complete the map are still in development

"Brain Researchers Start Mapping the Human 'Connectome,' " ScienceDaily, July 2, 2012, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120702152652.htm.

24 complete the first "larger-scale maps of neural wiring"

Sample, "Quest for the Connectome."

25 "artificially perfect the thinking instrument itself"