Dr. Church, however, said that there had recently been enormous technical improvements in decoding genomes and that he expected similar improvements in genome engineering.
"There are enormous potential improvements in health care possible by using mobile computing to record medication doses, prevent wrong medications, maintain proper schedules," Mr. Bravman said.
It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
The rapid progress of medicine in this era was reinforced by enormous improvements in communication between scientists throughout the world.
"If it were the case that technology could become custom tutors, then it's possible to imagine enormous improvements in educational attainment," said Spector.
In the past, LEDs were only suitable as indicator lights, but the enormous improvements in energy efficiency, cost and light output now allow the use of LEDs for lighting applications [1].
But there's enormous demand for improvements in time-keeping, whether for high-frequency trading, navigation, guidance, or autonomous vehicles.
"Over the course of the last 5 to 10 years, there have been several studies that came out that showed basically that there's room for enormous improvement in reducing errors in medicine.
While these changes have, of course, led to enormous improvements in performance and capabilities, something has potentially been lost — an opportunity to try to understand.
Some have been facilitated by advances in remote sensing technology that have resulted in enormous improvements in space-based satellite systems for observing and disseminating information for early warnings for environmental, biological, technological, and natural hazards.
