Physicians frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient too often offer aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically justified.
The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.
Every day though there are longer lines at this government run supermarket which charges for mostly imported goods at prices far beyond what many Cubans can afford to pay.
The rules and closures are an attempt to keep people from catching and spreading coronavirus but the effects go well beyond individuals stretching to national and local economies.
And all of this is happening so much faster than I could have ever imagined when I was sitting where you are today and Mark Zuckerberg was 11 years old.