The city was a blighted, unhealthy, confining place in 20th-century America that was true enough and travel-related advertising urged Americans to take to the open-road cure, to reclaim their unfenced inheritance.
In San Francisco a couple of weeks back the progressive medics of the Sage Commons gathered to talk about how open innovation could, should and will play an ever bigger role in disease detection and cure, with patients more active partners in this process.