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An Interstellar Universal Healthcare System (IUHS) is a single unified solution that takes care of all a persons healthcare needs. It captures a continuous stream of data from the patient that is used to track their internal state in realtime. This can be used to prevent the onset of illness as appose to curing illness. By aggregation of the data collected from the induvial patients it becomes possible to track and limit the effects of virus outbreaks like that of Covid-19. The interstellar aspect then enables the system to prevent virus outbreaks from reaching every celestial body. Leading to the conclusion that if the system is large enough it should be impossible for humanity to go extinct from disease. Given certain conditions this would include all forms of gain a function work.
Many smart people have wished for such a system to exist for a long time, but many of the required technologies did not exist prior to now. Many of which still are not fully functional, but are becoming so and indeed comprise a large part of the engineering challenges that the firm will face. This all starts with the amazing work of Elon Musk at NeuroLink which enables control of artificial body parts that was not possible before. People have had glass eyes before, but could never see out of them so pre-emptive cyborg implants have never happed. Now that we can retain or even improve human functionality with non-biological body parts, we can gain immunity to some conditions whilst keeping all our functionality.
Persistent biosensors and the ability to capture a continous stream of data from inside the human body for the lifespan of the patient is brand new. Its something that we have to do a lot of work not just in developing, but also in compliance with regulation. As the technology has not really existed before it proved to be something legislative bodies paid little to no attention to.
The ability to process the data and predict the future state of the patients body in realtime would require highly advanced AI which is being made as we speak. It is also necessary for a ubiquitous compute future to exist. Which seems to be the way the world is building in an attempt to support AI. The abandonment of green initiatives for larger energy production is an indication of this. This combined with the work of SpaceX which will likely see us on mars in less then 10 years, has given rise to the conditions necessary for the Interstellar Universal Healthcare system to exist.
The firms first product will be the cyborg eyes. This is because the technological background of our founder Dr. Amar Khan has enabled the firm to solve many of the problems that Elon Musk’s firm NuroLink will face after Blindsight before they or anyone else have encoutered them. Dr. Amar Khan is currently attempting to patent many of these soloutions.
The current state of the healthcare industry is full of perverse incentives that have resulted in a loss of trust in Big Pharma. Leading many to believe that they are capable of “legalised Murder”. One example of such incentives is the fact that empty beds do not make hospitals money, leading to the institutions requiring you to get sick for them to make a profit even if the people employed there have the best intensions.
We will not attempt to change this through legislation as it will likely prove ineffective. The hope of BiologyX is that by taking advantage of the invisible hand to change the sales model of the industry the incentives would also change to a set that are better aligned with the health of the patient. The final sales model of BiologyX is an insurance model, where the patient pays a monthly premium not to get sick, but if they do get sick BiologyX will cover all the treatment cost, reimburse them for any loss of income, and pay-out a massive claim. Given this sales model, BiologyX will be incentivised for you never to get sick and continuously improve the quality of its services to prevent you from getting sick. If BiologyX can make a large enough profit, the existing companies would have to file for bankruptcy or move to our model. This playbook is taken from Tesla and how Elon Musk changed the automotive market.
Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) is one of the foundational pillars of a Interstellar Universal Healthcare System. The ability to remove some of the constrains on the human body and monitor it in realtime has a profound effect on things like Brian Johnson’s blueprint and many other longevity protocols. We expect to help achieve longevity escape velocity by removing the damage done to the human body from the illnesses that we make people immune to, preventing damage from occurring to the body by monitoring and realtime personalised medicine, and improving the patients healthspan through STEM cell treatments.
Furthermore, the firm is currently working on adapting the work done by Dr. DeGray to generate a set of equations that can track our progress to LEV and personalised the score, so that we can measure every action we take, every item we eat, and everything we enjoy in terms of life loss or life gained. This means we can accurately track how long humanity will take to reach LEV, and therefore how any action like regulation or the invention of new medication will speed up or slow down our progress towards LEV.
If we only consider partial transformations, everything shy of genetic illness. The problems are timelines some parts of the human body are far harder to make cyborg parts for like organs, whilst others are far easier such as the eyes. This means we should expect to get new parts one by one over an extended time frame and we must understand some people may die from illness or accident prior to the world getting the part that could have saved them. This is not all doom and gloom as this only affects people now and there will come a point in after which every person born will be born into a world with all the cyborg parts pre-existing.
It is expected that initially anyone who is middle class and above would be able to afford most products, and over time the economies of scale would enable all people in developed countries to afford our products. In countries like the United Kingdom of Great Britain, where a national health service exists, we will attempt to provide these products on that service.
The only real question with affordability is if underdeveloped countries would be able to get these products. Noting that if BiologyX is successful we will attempt to partner with charities and other NGOs to help provide these products and services to these countries as a reduced price or where possible for free.
Because it has been done before by Elon Musk many times overs. The most impactful of which is SpaceX and the ability to make humanity multiplanetary. Now it is my desire to follow the lead of Elon Musk and attempt to build this ambitiously audacious and futuristic solution, however, I wish to do so respectively and above all else realistically. Please note I would not have tried to build BiologyX if Elon Musk did not build SpaceX, thus if I have any success on this mission please credit it to him, but my mistakes (of which I expect there will e many) are my own and only my own.
The firm is in a good position in regards to defensibility. There are multiple layers of protection to the firm. The first layer is IP protection, this consists of the protections afforded to patents, trademarks, and design rights. The remaining layers of protection are various types of network effects that arise from the adoption of the firms products. The first layer of these is the physical layer, when someone undergoes a operation to replace their eyes, they are unlikely to do so every time a new version of the eyes is available. This is one example of our network effects other examples include protocol and personal utility. Given that BiologyX has spent time dissecting the 16 levels of network effects and applying them to the firm, it is fair to say we have figured out how to have all the network effects in a single firm and will only get more defensible with scale. We will also get clearances and approvals to sell medical technologies in various jurisdictions proving another layer of legal cover.
Our products will disrupt the existing industry’s as they beat the nearest comparable products by more then x10 on multiple axis’s. Take cyborg eyes as an example the current closest alternative is laser eye (LASIK). LASIK would only correct your sight for a period of 20-ish years, our products will give your permeant immunity to ocular diseases. Whilst LASIK will restore your vision, our eyes will give you superpowers. LASIK is around £3000 per a set of eyes in the UK for the best cover, our eyes can be sold for a fraction of this price including the operation. As you can see our products will outclass there nearest competitors by a large margin this is what we believe will make our products far more comparative.
We will have multiple types of each product to cover various price points and consumer preferences. Instead of having a single set of eyes we will have eyes with different superpower enabled which will sell at different price points. The premier set of eyes will have all possible superpowers enabled.