What would it actually take?
Feasibility studies take a speculative or science-fictional concept seriously enough to specify what would actually be required to build it. The exercise is clarifying: it forces a precise distinction between engineering challenges, frontier research, and genuine scientific gaps that would require breakthroughs not currently on the horizon.
Autonomous Integrated Healing Systems
A DARPA-style feasibility assessment of closed-loop diagnostic-therapeutic platforms: the biobed, the bacta tank, the med-pod taken seriously. Three capability buckets assessed against current science with phased research roadmap.
Feasibility roadmap, full text
The complete document: scope, three capability buckets, integration challenges, phased research roadmap, risk assessment, recommendations.
Diagnostic capability
The most tractable of the three. From single-cell sequencing to whole-body real-time molecular mapping. Where the bottlenecks lie.
Genomic and cellular interpretation
Reading the genome is solved. Understanding it is not. The central scientific challenge in the entire study.
Therapeutic delivery
The longest-horizon bucket. Where neural reconnection, architectural reconstruction, and the unappreciated energy-budget problem live.
Studies in development
Each future study will follow the same format: take a science-fictional concept seriously, audit what would actually be required, and produce a phased research roadmap with honest risk assessment.
Traversable Wormhole Engineering
Exotic matter requirements, geometric constraints, and the credible path (or lack thereof) from Casimir-effect negative energies to macroscale spacetime engineering.
Whole-Brain Emulation
A capability audit of consciousness uploading: connectomics, simulation fidelity requirements, and where the philosophical questions become engineering ones.
Closed-Loop Life Support for Multi-Generational Voyages
What it would actually take to build a generation ship: biosphere stability, energy budget, social systems, the named open problems in each.