[andrewparker]

Good summary of human being's advantage in the war. But don't forget bacteria's key advantage: iteration speed.

Bacteria may be blind and and random in their micro-level behavior. But the speed at which they replicate is multiple orders of magnitude faster than the speed at which we can test and iterate new defenses.

It's a race of blindingly fast random iterations VS top-down snail-paced logical defense. If human's are to win, I think they will need to bump up the defensive iteration time an order of magnitude or so.

[userulluipeste]

Yes, that was the background idea in the talk. Among the ideas explicitly said was that our iteration for antibacterial defenses is low and slowing, and that we actively contributed to the increase of bacterial mutation opportunity. The solution mentioned include corrections for both these.