We've already established the Blue Blazer / Nikaido Foundation initiative to provide temporary housing as part of disaster relief. (Considering the quality of the converted-cargo-container housing modules, they may end up becoming permanent housing in areas where shantytowns existed before the disaster... and that's all right with the Nikaido Foundation.) My original idea for that was to equip a few of the cargo containers as fully-Danetech field surgeries, so that the Medecins Sans Frontieres doctors would have someplace to work. Adding in your suggestion of Fentech sensors, I suspect we've got disaster relief covered.
As for biomodification as medical treatment, I can see the terminally ill self-selecting into two groups - the ones who would literally rather die than be biomodded, and the ones who'll trade their homes on Earth for a few more decades of life. The first group might or might not accept a "wish" made true by handwavium (depending on why they refused a biomod); the latter group wouldn't need one.
(And I wouldn't expect the Danes to get over their "knee-jerk" reaction any time soon. Some people are still afraid of HIV, despite over two decades of education and at least a half-decade of availability of a treatment.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
As for biomodification as medical treatment, I can see the terminally ill self-selecting into two groups - the ones who would literally rather die than be biomodded, and the ones who'll trade their homes on Earth for a few more decades of life. The first group might or might not accept a "wish" made true by handwavium (depending on why they refused a biomod); the latter group wouldn't need one.
(And I wouldn't expect the Danes to get over their "knee-jerk" reaction any time soon. Some people are still afraid of HIV, despite over two decades of education and at least a half-decade of availability of a treatment.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012