However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into res

However, the main categories are physical and mental. At first glance, the physical type seems like the most problematic, but the fact is that psychological traumas can at times be so overwhelming, that people will go as far as to commit suicide.

Pain is hard to measure, in particular when it is of a mental kind. Nevertheless, there are physical aches that are well measured and even though classified as minor pains they can significantly decrease a person’s quality of life. When they persist for long periods of time, they can become very stressing and will usually drive people to desperation.

Whichever type, it is clear that nobody wants to endure any of the two. People want to be free of physical and mental pain at all moments in their life. They want to be exempt from it during childhood, during adolescence, during adulthood, and even during the later years. Pain is always unwelcome and science is the only one that has reduced the sorrow it causes.

Over the past two centuries, science and technology have achieved impressive feats on this matter and the evidence shows that they are the only ones that could one day banish it completely from our lives.

Science is steadily making progress in the fight against physical and mental anguish, with new and potent pharmaceuticals, with genetically configured drugs, and with many other treatments.

However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into rese

Pain is hard to measure, in particular when it is of a mental kind. Nevertheless, there are physical aches that are well measured and even though classified as minor pains they can significantly decrease a person’s quality of life. When they persist for long periods of time, they can become very stressing and will usually drive people to desperation.

Whichever type, it is clear that nobody wants to endure any of the two. People want to be free of physical and mental pain at all moments in their life. They want to be exempt from it during childhood, during adolescence, during adulthood, and even during the later years. Pain is always unwelcome and science is the only one that has reduced the sorrow it causes.

Over the past two centuries, science and technology have achieved impressive feats on this matter and the evidence shows that they are the only ones that could one day banish it completely from our lives.

Science is steadily making progress in the fight against physical and mental anguish, with new and potent pharmaceuticals, with genetically configured drugs, and with many other treatments.

However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into res

Whichever type, it is clear that nobody wants to endure any of the two. People want to be free of physical and mental pain at all moments in their life. They want to be exempt from it during childhood, during adolescence, during adulthood, and even during the later years. Pain is always unwelcome and science is the only one that has reduced the sorrow it causes.

Over the past two centuries, science and technology have achieved impressive feats on this matter and the evidence shows that they are the only ones that could one day banish it completely from our lives.

Science is steadily making progress in the fight against physical and mental anguish, with new and potent pharmaceuticals, with genetically configured drugs, and with many other treatments.

However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into res

Over the past two centuries, science and technology have achieved impressive feats on this matter and the evidence shows that they are the only ones that could one day banish it completely from our lives.

Science is steadily making progress in the fight against physical and mental anguish, with new and potent pharmaceuticals, with genetically configured drugs, and with many other treatments.

However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into res

However, the time it will take to reach that painless world that is so hungered by everybody, is unknown. What is known is that the speed by which technology advances depends exclusively on the speed by which money flows into laboratories.

People tend to get impressed with nominal figures that make reference to the billions that yearly go into research and development. However, the only thing that matters is the share of the total economy that gets allocated to that area.

At present, about 3% of the U.S. economy gets allocated to research and development (R&D). Three percent is a puny amount, but the worst part is that a very large share of it goes into defense and defense related fields.

History shows that money spent on R&D, even if it is to make weapons, is better than when it gets used for civilian activities that are not of a scientific nature. Over the centuries, countless weapon technologies were adapted to many civilian activities and they delivered large benefits to society. However, history also shows that the benefits to society are much larger when the money is directly used for scientific civilian purposes.

What needs to be done is to significantly raise the share from 3% to at least 10%. There is also a need to transfer much of the military resources into civilian fields and more particularly into the medical field.

Many of the defense funds must remain in that area because the country needs to be well prepared against its enemies. However, the biggest enemy is malady. Heart disease and cancer alone kill more Americans every year than all the wars the U.S. has participated in the last century. Those two diseases also cause an inordinate amount of physical and psychological pain on their victims before terminating their lives.

In the European Union, the situation is very similar. R&D expenditures during the last decades have been at 2% of the total eco