Unit 9. Progress

Unit 9. Progress

1. Health

   • Permanent learning on infectious diseases
   • RNA - based vaccines
   • crispr cas9 technology
   • Oncology personalised treatments, like CAR-T therapy
   • Gene therapy
   • Genetic counseling
   • Next Generation Sequencing devices
   • Health crisis management
   • Massive treatments to common diseases, like flu
   • Health system management focused on preventive issues
   • Almost worldwide access to healthcare systems (there is still people who can't get a proper access to these services, but I think we are closer than 6 or 7 years ago)
   • Tilapia regenerative treatments on burned people

2. Industry

   • Philosophy of reducing emissions
   • Sustainable progress vs unsustainable
   • Knowledge becoming more accessible
   • The worldwide idea of sustainable urban movility that promotes biking instead of driving
   • Fossil fuels
   • Microplastics
   • Artificial intelligence
   • Robotics
   • Nanotechnology
   • The Mars One project
   • Massive production

3. Social

   • Equal rights to men and women
   • Effort culture
   • Family-work conciliation culture
   • The Greta Thundberg movement
   • Craftsmanship as an alternative to consumerism of proximity trade
   • Change of capitalist global market tendencies after the COVID crisis