Peter Huber Presents Big Ideas About Information

The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine. Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, earned his law degree at Harvard and taught engineering at MIT. His books include The Bottomless Well and Hard Green.

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Never before have two revolutions with so much potential occurred simultaneously. The converging, synergistic power of the biochemical and digital revolutions now allows us to read every letter of life’s code, create precisely targeted drugs to control it, and tailor their use to individual patients. But Washington stands in the way, clinging to outdated drug-approval protocols developed decades ago during medicine’s long battle with the infectious epidemics of the past. The Cure in the Code shows patients, doctors, investors, and policy makers what we must now do to capture the full life-saving and cost-saving now before us. At stake for America is the power to lead the world in mastering the most free, fecund, competitive, dynamic, and intelligent natural resource on the planet—the molecular code that spawns human life and controls our health.