We Are Here Tomorrow

Final episode in our three-part miniseries on chronic disease prevention. John and Zach take off the rose-colored lenses. For widespread adoption and support of chronic disease technology, our world may need some serious changes. The health system is shortsighted. Fancy algorithms are sometimes hilariously bad. And we don't trust the magic machines. But payoff should expand far beyond chronic diseases - if we ever get there...

In Episode 2 of our 3 part miniseries on Preventing Chronic Disease, Zach and John dive into the blossoming world of medical diagnosis with machine learning. We explore two research papers to get a better perspective of where this science is today, and what we hope it goes tomorrow! If you love technically questionable analogies, you have come to the right podcast. Let’s go!

John and Zach discuss how certain wearables could enable chronic disease prevention. Diabetes is presented as a case study we can learn from. John theorizes which steps researchers could follow to enable you and I to prevent other chronic diseases that are responsive to behavioral change.

Welcome to a special sneak peak of We Are Here Tomorrow. This podcast will feature discussions on how upcoming future innovations and trends that might profoundly affect our worlds -- or not. The conversations are hosted by curious engineers and researchers Zach Foust and John Mundahl. Importantly, an online community accompanies this podcast show. You can find conversational newsletters and archives at WeAreHereTomorrow.com or by searching We Are Here Tomorrow.