Our globally interconnected world is becoming decentralised as we shift away from big government and towards more inventions and disruptions created by people who don’t have huge research grants or lauded careers, enabled by ever cheaper and more democratised technology.
The people who’ve got nothing left to lose, like Jamie Heywood who lost his brother to motor neuron disease and went on to found PatientsLikeMe, an enormous online community where patients all over the world suffering with similar conditions can find groups on every disease going, discuss their treatments, their results, their trials and crowdsource the findings. Stevenson has a habit of finding the underdog because this is often where radical change happens.
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