Slowly then quickly — how humanity defeated infectious disease and more

Dr. Joseph Mocanu
6 min readJun 1, 2021
The innocuous little nanoparticle hero central to our story (image c/o UAB)

I thought it might be fun to change things up a bit and write some speculative fiction, but please don’t get your hopes up.

This story takes place in the near future, let’s say 2040, but it could be 2100 or never… that’s the fun of exponential growth, we overestimate the near and underestimate the far. I also want to try to capture the…

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