Summary

The medical and life-sciences fields are huge and notorious for both the volumes of data they create and the value in proper analysis of that data. It is clearly an area for Inescapable Data, especially because these industries are producing more data than ever before and at an accelerating rate. As computer horsepower and strategies such as federated computing improve, we could enter an age of personalized medication made possible by knowledge of our personal genome. Drug discoveries will migrate to more specialized drugs (because of more specialized diseases) made possible by pervasive computing and wide data sharing. Petabytes of radiology data will provide for automated diagnosis of some of our most worrisome diseases. Doctor-office scheduling will finally meet the needs of overly busy people and improve everyone's efficiency. Our own home health care will embrace continuous personal monitoring of a variety of our bodily metrics. Data will abound, networks will drive real-time connectivity, and we will leverage the world's soldiers (us) to tease-out critical relationships and values. As said earlier, the magic occurs when the number of machines and people manipulating the data rivals the size of the data itselfthis is possible in our Inescapable Data world.