20-02-2010, 09:22 AM
Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspire
"When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict."
(aka - open source medical data base) could be applied into other fields and disciplines... see James Burke and his connections project (could such a model be used for optimizing the democratic political progress?)
"When Jamie Heywood's brother was diagnosed with ALS, he devoted his life to fighting the disease as well. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses -- and they discovered that the collective data had enormous power to comfort, explain and predict."
(aka - open source medical data base) could be applied into other fields and disciplines... see James Burke and his connections project (could such a model be used for optimizing the democratic political progress?)
"The mediator between the head and the hands must be the heart” - Fritz Lang (Metropolis - 1926)