Implicit in this vision is the Utopian fantasy that underlies most high-tech futurism: once Africa puts this infrastructure in place, all of its problems--tribalism, racism, poverty and disease--will disappear in the purifying light of a fiber optic cable.

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When a pulse of light is sent into the tumor using fiber optic cable that is threaded into a tumor using a biopsy needle, the molecule absorbs the light energy, converts it electrical energy that then causes tumor cells to self destruct.

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