➔ Quantum Health: How Quantum Computers Could Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria and Viruses
Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 10 opens with a simple question: how long can you live? For most of human history, the answer was “not very long.” Average life expectancy hovered between twenty and thirty years. People died from things we now treat with a cheap pill from the pharmacy.
Kaku walks through the major medical milestones that got us to where we are today. Better sanitation in the 1800s added fifteen to twenty years. European wars pushed doctors to actually publish results that worked instead of protecting their useless potions. Then came antibiotics and vaccines, adding another ten to fifteen years. So now many countries sit around seventy years life expectancy.