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The Transition From Medicine 1.0 to 2.0
Before Francis Bacon's codification of what science is, there was no way to bridge the gap between nature and illness. The advent of germ theory allowed us to go from really having no sense of what was causing illness to having a very good sense of it in the late 19th century. So you had this 200-year transition, basically, to go from medicine 1.0 to medicine 2.0. And I believe we are at the end of today where we've developed amazing tools to basically do two things very well.