The future of highly personalized health care

We can surely lean well towards the optimistic in envisioning health care. In the world 10-25 years ahead of us. This optimism is based on rapid developments in genomics, the essential basis of molecular medicine, and on advances in computer power. At the time of writing this paper, the Human Genome Project was planned to have a working draft by 2000 and indeed completion was announced on June 26th from Washington. This paper describes the situation and vision at that time. Though there has been much subsequent more thought about the influence of genomics on healthcare, the aspirations and visions have not fundamentally changed from those of 2000, except for the greater attention to practical details that comes from increased confidence in the practicality of the vision.