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Hand held and micro-imaging technologies will also be available to collect information, principally anatomic or structural information. It is not unreasonable to think that other imaging technologies, such as CT, MRI, infra-red, far infrared, microwave to mention a few, will also become extremely small in size and therefore inexpensive. In planning the future of preventive medicine, it is essential to consider the consequence of having cost effective miniaturized devices available ubiquitously. The impact will be to provide the 5 P’s to anyone, with the massive amount of data available to make decisions on a continuous, real-time basis. Clearly it will not be possible for individuals, let alone physicians, to be engaged in so many decision processes.