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Navigating health technology: The challenges and the rewards
Advances in AI and genomics can fundamentally transform healthcare but guard rails are needed too.
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The unprecedented availability of data can fundamentally transform healthcare, says Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.
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Ong Ye Kung
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Throughout human history, technological breakthroughs have always been double-edged swords. For example, the invention of the steam engine and spinning jenny ushered in the Industrial Revolution. World trade and gross domestic product went up, but at the same time, there was oppression of workers which gave rise to Marxism, communism and the Cold War.
Closer to the present times, the internet makes infinite amounts of knowledge accessible to everybody, but with it comes cybercrime and a threat to the mental health of one whole generation.
