Dr. James Canton

Client Testimonials

1 "Your skillful weaving of societal, business, technological and payments industry trends gave my team much to think about. The breakout groups we held following your presentation were highly energized and productive as a result of the material you presented."
Robert W. Selander
President and CEO
MasterCard International

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"Your talk was a good fit for this audience because the future of computing and technology is always of high interest to those people who are responsible for planning and purchasing it."
Enrico Pesatori
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Compaq

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"Thank you so much for your contribution to Kraft's Digital Hothouse event. It was a huge success, it's getting terrific feedback from the business teams and your participation has made all the difference."
The Kraft Digital Hothouse Team
Kraft

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"I want to personally thank you for joining our Platinum Partners in Alaska and delivering not only an interesting, but compelling speech for this group. The feedback has been phenomenal. Our Platinum Partners also appreciated you joining and personally interacting with each and every one on our Dog Sledding activity."
Pauline Hailstones
Event Manager
Anthony Robbins Companies

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"Your comments gave us an insight into technology trends and new market suggestions that mapped exceedingly well with our strategic goals."
Arthur E. Johnson
President & Chief Operating Officer
Lockheed Martin

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"Your Technofutures presentation was a smashing success, and we are really looking forward to another successful briefing in Seattle."
Rich Dietz
President Sales Global Markets
SBC

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"I particularly liked the way you took a complex issue and managed to aim it at multiple levels of tech understanding in the audience and relate it to their varying perspectives."
Toby Redshaw
Vice President
Federal Express

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"Your keen insight has played an important role in the formation of our business strategy."
Yoshi Matsumoto
Senior Vice President
Fujitsu Interactive, Inc.

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"Your vision of future customer and market demands, especially as they relate to the wireless and transportation industries, was thought provoking for our execs, technical managers and inventors."
Harry J. Pearce
Vice Chairman
General Motors

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"Respondents commented how your presentation "helped set the stage" for the presentations that followed."
Dr. Alvin Bisarya
McKinsey & Company

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"All of our guests, and our MetLife team, at the recent Customer Advisory board meeting thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. It was both timely and on point. You obviously understand the broad trends affecting the country, and what possible outcomes may result. We also appreciated just the right mix of wit and wisdom."
Craig J. Guiffre
Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
MetLife

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"There is no doubt in my mind that the clients and consultants received important insights into what the emerging technology will do to transform our current business practices."
Carl V. Zangardi
Vice President
Prudential Investments

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"Your insights on the key trends and strategies that will shape the future of mobile business, on what consumers want, and on the wireless business models and technologies that will create opportunity for strategic advantage in the future were enlightening."
Gina Lombardi
Senior Vice President
Qualcomm

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"Previous technology speakers at this conference have delivered speeches which now seem elementary, and we appreciate your deep-future insights into the landscape of consumer use of technology.
Paul B. Sheldon
Vice President
Salomon Smith Barney

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"You gave us a solid base from which to begin our dialogue with valued customer so we can become strategic planning partners in helping then reach their business objectives."
Richard Dietz
President, Global Markets
SBC

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"Your lively presentation of information and vision about our future deeply impressed the over two hundred managers and high potentials who attended the event."
Nikolaus Geigenberger
Siemens

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"Thank you for taking the time to share your global knowledge and futuristic views with my leadership team. Your presentation was both informative and thought provoking."
Arthur B. Krause
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Sprint

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"You provided some though-provoking insight to global trends that are significantly impacting the future of business. After you left, the discussions throughout the rest of the day drew directly on the themes of your presentation."
Otello Sturino
Chief Operating Officer
State Street Global Advisors

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"Often futurist and technology guru's are not able to make their presentations relevant to the average individual, your talk made highly technical, sometimes unimaginable concepts seem simple."
Dick Schliesmann
President, Auto Finance
Wells Fargo

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"Your presentation was terrific! During the twenty years that I have been a platform speaker, I have experienced very few individuals with the rare blend of genuine creativity, intelligence, and communications skills that you possess."
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.
President & CEO
Age Wave, Inc.

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"I would highly recommend you to other corporations and events that might occur in the future. I feel that your presentation style and personality were fresh and very interesting to me and all attendees."
Paul J. Latchford
Senior Director of Strategic Business
Hughes Network Systems

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"We especially appreciate the way you customized your presentation to our specific businesses and markets. Your cutting edge multimedia presentation, expertise and obvious passion for the topic translated to an informative, entertaining and actionable presentation."
Peter Blatman
Senior Vice President and Managing Partner
Computer Sciences Corporation

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"Your presentation was excellent and enlightening. Your knowledge of the subject combined with your enthusiastic delivery style certainly resulted in an outstanding session."
Linda C. Murphy
Director of Corporate Communications
PPG Industries

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"Your presentation was insightful, thoughtful and clear. Your ideas were fresh and gave the audience, all of whom have years of health care experience a new lens with which to see the challenges that face our industry. It was the real highlight of our conference."
Debra Shepard
VP Marketing
Consortium Health Plans, Blue Cross

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"Your Technofutures presentation made quite an impact on our agents, brokers and St. Paul staff. It was truly a pleasure having you join us."
Leslie Merritt
Manager of Events
St. Paul Health Care

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"After your session ended, numerous attendees from fields of education, administration and business were moved a great deal and commented on the great value of the entire opening session."
Robert B. Ralls
President
Foundation for the Junior Blind

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"I wanted to express my deep appreciation for the superb job you did in setting the stage for the Cooperative of American Physicians and Mutual Protection Trust's two day strategic planning session. During the following two days, we frequently referred back to some of the ideas you offered and these ideas were reflected in the output from our strategic planning activities."
Richard A. Coskren
President and CEO
Insurance Education Association

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"Your presentation achieved the desired effect: to challenge our attendees to think about their business future."
Karen Greenrose
President
AAPPO

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"The outside perspectives that we were able to include in our thinking helps us to understand better the opportunities for Monsanto."
Marin Gjaja
Vice President & Director
Boston Consulting Group

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"We especially appreciated your presentation during our 'Dynamics of the Health Care Marketplace...The Board Members and several attendees have commented that it was an excellent day of health care discussion and information sharing."
Jarvio A. Grevious
Assistant Executive Officer, Health Benefits
CalPERS

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"You have an excellent perspective on the Internet and the depth at which it is going to affect every aspect of our industry...Not only will we be inviting you to present again, we will highly recommend you to anyone who is looking for a practical and expansive view of the future technology will play in the corporate world."
Joe Belew
President
Consumer Bankers Association

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"You did an excellent job of painting a very clear picture of the skills individuals, organizations and communities will need to flourish in the future."
Joey D. Williams
Dayton City Commissioner
City of Dayton, Ohio

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"As we discussed on site, this audience was comprised of senior level executives from direct marketing companies around the country and around the world. They are not always the easiest group to please, but they were delighted with the insight you delivered in your presentation on technology and how it would impact their business."
Dan Goldstein
Director, Conference Program Development
Direct Marketing Association

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"Your session on Technofutures, and the session discussing the study 'America's Youth Look to the Future,' which examined the attitudes, inspirations, and financial and academic preparedness of young people ages 16-24, were very helpful in raising the awareness of these very important issues."
Clark J. Wold
President
Education Assistance Corporation

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"Your dynamic keynote did more than just set the tone of the conference. It propelled the audience into a state of m ind where they were receptive to the new and exciting technologies that would be demonstrated in the days to come...On top of everything, you were very pleasant to work with and accommodating to our needs."
Genevra Newell
Event Marketing Specialist
Giga Information Group, Inc.

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"Your presentation on the leading-edge technologies that will shape the future of health care brought a welcome opportunity to expand their perspectives."
Laura Noble, CHFP
Manager, Resource Center
Healthcare Financial Management Association

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"It became apparent that the vast majority of the audience was very engaged in your presentation. This was not a major surprise to me, as the audience were primarily leaders in technology and your presentation touched upon many subjects near and dear to our hearts."
Phil Weiss
Senior Manager, Information Risk Management
KPMG

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"I thoroughly enjoyed your enlightening discussion on high-tech trends in business. It offered innovative ideas for exploring technology opportunities for top executives in any organization."
Harry J. Griffiths
Vice President, Large Account Sales & Industry Marketing
Lexmark

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"It was a great pleasure to work with you and we appreciated all your hard work to put on such an outstanding presentation to our members, that truly represented a commitment to our programs and goals."
Edward J. Callahan
Mortgage Bankers Association of America

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"I want to especially commend you on taking the time in advance of coming ito our meeting in order to call me to discuss our group."
Eleanor B. DeMoors, CMP
Director of Meetings & Exhibits
NTCA

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"Your insightful perspectives on the future global disruptive opportunities coming in the 21st century will greatly aid the Fellows as they attempt to identify the future security environment in which U.S. naval forces will have to operate."
James R. Hogg
Admiral, USN (Ret.)
Director
CNO Strategic Studies Group

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"I can't thank you enough for your excellent and highly professional presentation. I feel we are better prepared to face the future with the road map you have presented."
Craig C. Senia
Northrop Grumman

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"In our round table presentation you were able to solicit and combine comments from three departments (Marketing and Advertising, Sales and Service), into a well-rounded and well received synopsis of how well Sharp is prepared to support our dealers."
Michael A. Weber
Vice President, Service and Parts Group
Sharp

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"I was impressed with your desire to walk our show floor to familiarize yourself with the products of our industry and our members, and also your complete professionalism both on and off the stage."
Joe Basso
Manager, Commercial Services
SOCMA

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"Your level of expertise and insightful comments provided the foundation for a successful meeting."
Bryan D. Brown
General, U.S. Army Commander
United States Special Operations Command

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"As you know the times we live in are exciting and challenging. A person capable of captivating the essence of this fundamental shift is rare. You are such a person."
Kevin
Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Xerox

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Media Testimonials

InfoWorld Interview with Dr. James Canton

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InfoWorld
Technology marches on Advances may spark fundamental changes in how IT work is done
By Nora Isaacs

A wise person once said that the only thing constant is change. This adage surely rings true for IT professionals heading into the next century, whose jobs entail incorporating a dizzying number of technological advances.

"Technology is changing at warp speed," says James Canton, president of Institute for Global Futures, a San Francisco-based think tank that advises Fortune 1000 companies on the impact of leading-edge technologies on customers, markets, and the economy. "If you were to disappear and come back after 90 days, the Net would have doubled, bandwidth would have increased by a third, and there would be a half a dozen innovations you would have missed."

With technology changing at breakneck speed, where will that leave IT professionals 20 years from now? According to some predictions, in a place where users and customers reign supreme, where virtual offices are the norm -- and where IT's role and structure have radically changed.

THE CUSTOMER IS KING. "IT is the strategic weapon for the battle of the customer," Canton says. With Internet commerce rapidly changing the economy, customer service will soon become the driving force behind any IT job. As customers drive changes, corporations must scramble to keep up with their demands. Canton predicts that in 20 years, as much as 30 percent of today's industries will be gobbled up by the Web and simply disappear. "The central issue is that they will not change fast enough to meet customer needs," Canton says. "Customers will either reward or punish you for how you create values such as cyber service." Other changes may also help increase the emphasis on the customer.

Chuck Martin, chairman and CEO of the Net Future Institute, in North Hampton, N.H., and the author of The Digital Estate and Net Future, says the biggest technological change for IT professionals will be rapid advances in real-time predictive modeling technology. Although organizations such as banks have been using this predictive modeling technology for a long time, Martin sees a change on the horizon because of the emphasis on the customer. "We are moving away from the product of a company having value and moving toward a time where information is more valuable than the product," Martin says. Martin uses the example of a buying a car on the Web. Today, a consumer will look at cars, choose a red one, and then be directed to a place to buy a nice red car. In the future, the car company will be analyzing data around the country to see what consumers are doing. If they decide that many people will want red cars in the future, the company will connect in real time with a red-paint manufacturer in Taiwan.

ALL HAIL THE USER. With technology embedded just about everywhere, the user will take on a much bigger role. It will be up to IT professionals to create intuitively friendly operating system environments and applications that will produce efficiency, speed, and value for the user.

"Extranets and the globalization of IT organizations have turned IT on its head, introducing dynamic career paths for programmers, network security directors, and application developers, who must now build from the user's perspective," says Amy Rusko, managing editor at the Charleston, S.C.-based IT & Internet Business Report. She notes that although tools that are customer- or user-centric are often more complicated to create and maintain, this is the way things are headed as user demands increase.

Other technology predictions may also affect both users' and IT professionals' careers. Graphical interface tools will get simpler so users can change, update, and customize, leaving those in IT with time for planning business strategy. Speech-recognition technology will dramatically change the role of people in the software development community.

"We have this device that has a lot of technology in it, but the burden falls to the development community to be able to factor usability," says Tony Wasserman, a principal at Software Methods and Tools, a San Francisco-based consulting service. Wasserman predicts that as speech-recognition technology becomes widely used, the number of people with no computing skills will also grow.

Web-based applications will displace traditional application software. "Browsers are becoming the default way to access information," says Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster at the Institute For The Future, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based think tank. For IT folks, Web-based applications still mean development, but a different kind -- fast-moving, lightweight applications with front-end browsers. "The idea of fiddling with Microsoft applications will evaporate," Saffo predicts. While this takes the burden of constant upgrading and maintenance away from IT people, shifting to browsers also comes with increased user expectations. Some say integration is another key word of the future. IT jobs may become less about technology itself and more about the strategy of linking technology together. "It will be integrating everything, doing e-commerce, planning a business strategy -- all before you have your cup of coffee in the morning," Canton says.

WHAT OFFICE? Another trend that is designed to make life easier for users -- remote access -- may significantly complicate IT's role as well. With an increase in bandwidth and the use of broadband technologies, the work environment will be accessible at any time from any place. The expansion of telecommuting may mean the near death of brick and mortar offices, which creates an interesting challenge for IT folks. "How do you create a virtual network for three-quarters of an organization that doesn't have an office?" Canton asks. One answer: Advances in bandwidth will let people easily teleconference, download large documents, and use digital video streaming media.

The entrance of broadband into the consumer environment also means a big jump in remote workers. Fast Internet access will drive every business, and the Internet will be available on every device -- cellular phones, wireless pilots, and as a channel on digital television. Many IT professionals, such as programmers, will be able to work from anywhere. The downside, of course, is that people with no offices can't leave their work at the office. When the office becomes anywhere and everywhere, IT could potentially become a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job for all IT professionals.

A RADICAL RESTRUCTURING. All of these technical changes mean that in the next few decades, IT's role in an organization will undergo a fundamental change. The shape of that reinvention, however, depends on whom you ask. Canton envisions a future in which IT professionals will understand business strategy and business-critical applications, become customer centric, and get fully involved in strategic planning. Embracing these trends is critical for survival. "I'm forecasting now, particularly post-Y2K, that as many as 15 percent of all companies will transform their IT staffs," Canton says. Such a transformation involves a holistic approach to IT.

"The concept that we have regular jobs and IT jobs will be gone," says Leilani Allen, a partner at Summer Point Consulting, in Mundelein, Ill. "Everything will have a systems component." Allen compares today's IT departments to the traditional "ghetto" society.

"If you take the historical meaning of a ghetto, it's where a society wanted to contain a group, as well as the group itself wanted to preserve themselves," Allen says. "As we enter the next century, those ghetto walls will have to come down." As those walls crumble, a people who understand IT, understand customer service, and are extremely computer savvy will populate more leadership positions. "The whole era of IT as a support function for marketing, finance, and sales is history," Canton says. The open question, according to Saffo, is whether IT will centralize or break within smaller departments. "The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines," Saffo says. "The combination of standardized protocols and component-based software will make it less and less sensible for corporations to have their own IS staff in the traditional sense," says Chris Meyer, partner and director of the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, in Cambridge, Mass. Rather than blending into the background, Canton sees a future populated by what he calls "IT SWAT teams" where IT staffs are expandable on demand, deployable virtually and physically -- any time and any place. Exactly how this will happen within the new IT structure depends on new technologies and user needs. Just as technology drives changes, change drives technology. According to the experts, the next century looks like an airplane runway that never ends, with the technology careening faster and faster toward an unknown terrain.

The Future of Financial Services

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Brain Waves

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Brain Waves

Business2.0
By Carol Pickering,

The World Wide Web may be in its infancy, or just entering adolescence. It's hard to be certain. As we mapped the path of its evolution, we asked 10 influential people to riff on their visions of the Web -- what form will it take?

Dr. James CantonPresident, Institute for Global Futures, Futurist The deep personalization of content that is customized for our preferences, that remembers who we are, and organizes in nanoseconds, in real-time, what we want, will be essential. More intelligent searching technology, voice and gesture driven, will be a central feature of the future Net. The entire experience of being online will become natural and intuitive, mimicking human interaction.

The merging of the physical and the virtual world will have a profound impact on education, entertainment, and health care. Doctors will be on the Net as they operate on patients; education will become an experience of cyber-traveling to engage in synthetic adventures; entertainment will become interactive, sensory, and infinite in its possibilities; nothing will be taboo.

We will digitize sensory information such as smell, touch, sight, and sound - even emotions. Biometric recognition and force-feedback technology will make the Net a fully interactive sensory experience. There is no doubt that there will be a dark side to all this digital bounty. Invasions of privacy, identity theft, stolen digital cash, abuses of medical and personal information will also be common. The future doesn't come without its baggage. Pack light.

The Future of Healthcare

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Health Forum Journal Interviews Dr. Canton

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Dr. Canton Interviewed by Health Forum Journal
Nanomedicine: The Next Little Thing

By David Ollier Weber
Sept/Oct 2002

Nanomedicine is a blockbuster, with huge implications for health care (not to mention human life). Realize it or not, you are living in the Century of Nanomedicine. Nothing is going to be the same.

Disease? An obsolescent concept, at least as conventionally defined.

Already, notes the man who has literally written the book on nanomedicine, theoretician Robert Freitas Jr., of Zyvex Corporation, in Richardson, Texas, scientists are rapidly filling in the map of the human genome and dissecting the proteome. It is not unreasonable to expect that before mid-century we will possess "a complete catalog of all human proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleoproteins and other molecules, including full sequence, structure and much functional information," he writes. This will be accomplished in large measure thanks to the chemists, materials scientists, and nanotechnology engineers at university laboratories and start-up commercial enterprises who are gaining astonishing dexterity in the fabrication of complex microscopic tools and "machines" assembled by positioning nanobits of matter with atomic-level precision.

(The prefix nano- comes from the Greek word for dwarf, Freitas explains, and is used to designate one-billionth of a standard measurement--a nanometer, for example, is one billionth of a meter, or about the width of six carbon atoms. Nanotechnology and nanomedicine refer to deployment of instruments built, sized, and operating on a scale of less than 100 nanometers--"the scale of biology," points out chemist Chad Mirkin, director of the Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University. A virus, for example, measures 60 to 100 nanometers, an antibody 2 to 20, a protein under 10.)

"The comprehensive knowledge of human molecular structure so painstakingly acquired during the 20th and early 21st centuries will be used in the 21st century to design medically active microscopic machines," asserts Freitas in Nanomedicine, the densely annotated, intricately reasoned 500-page survey of possibilities he published in 1999. (He is now at work at Zyvex on volumes two and three. All quotes that follow, except those indicated, are from the first book.) "These machines," he continues, "rather than being tasked primarily with voyages of pure discovery, will instead most often be sent on missions of cellular inspection, repair and reconstruction." Nanometer-scaled medical "robots" armed with detectors and antibiotic or antiviral payloads that can seek out invaders inside individual cells, or gobble and neutralize microbes circulating in the bloodstream, or link and assemble tissue structures to accomplish major reconstructive and restorative procedures will be capable within a few decades, Freitas is confident, of "revers[ing] all pathological effects of disease or injury, with a minimum of pain, discomfort, side effects, intrusiveness and time, and with a maximum of effectiveness, efficiency and likelihood of success."

Medical Evolution
Just how nutty is this guy? We're not all zipping around in flying cars as was predicted in the 1950s, or commuting to the moon à la Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. How likely is it that infinitesimal medical robots will be bustling about inside our bodies, keeping us hale and virtually immortal in 2101? Freitas points to the trajectory of science history. As does James Canton, president of the Institute for Global Futures, in San Francisco. "Right now, in terms of time lines and the development of Western medicine, we're just a few notches away from leeches and bloodletting," observes Canton. And yet, he acknowledges, those notches include the groundbreaking biological insights that, since the mid-19th century, have transformed medical diagnosis and therapy from a magical art into a modern, evidence-based science. It was in the late 17th century that scholars introduced the term molecula. By 1869 the chemistry-book definition of a "molecule" was "the smallest particle of an element in the free state . . . , a group of atoms mechanically indivisible." A dawning appreciation of the biological function of molecules by Louis Pasteur (seeking a treatment for anthrax), Paul Ehrlich, Alexander Fleming, Rene Dubos, and others culminated in the development of penicillin (in 1939) and successor antibiotics--agents of unprecedented potency against pathogens because of their deadly molecular aim.

Refinements in microscopy enabled biologists in the 1850s to descry the dye-absorbing rods in cell nuclei they labeled chromosomes, and to recognize by the early 20th century that these were the repositories of genes. By mid-century James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins, interpreting the remarkable X-ray crystallographic images and brilliant clues supplied by Rosalind Franklin (she would die of cancer at 37), had earned Nobel Prizes for their elucidation of the double-helical nature of the molecule that encodes an organism's genetic heritage: deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. In 1990, amplification of this knowledge, hitched to other scientific advances--including the use of viruses as vectors to insert desirable genes into living cells, and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique for rapidly reading and replicating the chemical base pairs of DNA strands--made possible the first "gene therapy" for a child born with a hereditary disorder, adenosine deaminase deficiency. It worked.

In the late 1950s, physicist Richard Feynman predicted that the ability to arrange atoms "one by one the way we want them" would be an inevitable step along the path of scientific advance. And indeed, by 1982 IBM researchers had built the scanning tunneling microscope that enabled them to shuffle 35 xenon atoms to spell out the corporate logo. A refinement, the atomic force microscope, offered even more precision and versatility in working with living systems. In 1985, Rice University researcher Richard Smalley created a new form of carbon whose 60 atoms form a geodesic sphere with walls only one atom thick. (He called it Buckminsterfullerene after the architect of the geodesic dome, a name later shortened to fullerene. It was in this period that the term nanotechnology was also introduced.) Used as the tip on an atomic force microscope probe, a tubular variant of the carbon-60 molecule now gives researchers the ability to scrutinize the composition and operation of single proteins--for example, beta amyloid, the source of the plaque that accumulates in the brain to produce Alzheimer's disease.

Genie's Box
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads: One path leads to despair and hopelessness, and the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. --Woody Allen
B Not everyone is ecstatic about the prospects of a nanotechnology-enhanced world. Sun Microsystems cofounder and chief scientist Bill Joy is a notable Cassandra who fears that comedian Allen may have got it right. In a 2000 interview with the online magazine Salon, Joy explained his fears:

"We understand biology and we understand machines, but these things [nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and robotics] are different. . . . These things are so powerful [that when we use them] we really can't foresee what the outcome will be."

Joy thinks some kind of consensus on regulation must be reached, but he's not expecting it anytime soon. "We would have to deal with the scientific community's enormous desire for lack of interference, and businesses' enormous desire for lack of interference, and government's desire to not do anything," he opined joylessly. "Everybody's pretty happy with the status quo at this point. It's going to take some real leadership, and it's going to take time to develop."

Futurist Canton shares Freitas's certainty that "we have now unlocked the genie's box. This is the last generation of folks who will not have access to a deep palette of understanding of our genetic destiny. There won't even be a field in 10 years called 'nanomedicine'--it'll simply be 'medicine.' And the transformation will be profound. Manipulation of matter at the atomic level means manipulation of our entire reality. It will challenge the whole notion of human evolution."

Thus Canton shares Joy's deep trepidations as well.

"We'll make every mistake we can possibly make," Canton predicts, "up to the point of damaging the gene pool. We don't know enough to know the potential risks to our evolutionary foundation this technology could produce. We're talking about how our consciousness and behavior may be altered by the most powerful set of tools any civilization has ever dealt with in the history of mankind. So. Do I think we ought to move cautiously? Yes. But I also believe we will move forward."

No doubt about it. Certainly not among the nanotechnologists. Gazing at the manmade molecules of nanoscale bone-seed he's synthesized at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York [see sidebar], chemist Richard Siegel exclaims: "We're living in a very exciting world right now!"

Welcome to the Century of Nanomedicine. Nothing is going to be the same.

Excerpted from Health Forum Journal September/October 2002

Welcome to the Future - Health & Medicine

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