>>I guess when the day comes when I can walk into a Walmart and buy my sparkplugs and laundry detergent and squeeze in a commoditized brain surgery during my lunch hour, you'll have proven us all wrong. :)

LOL. but you're still not debating: a "straw man" is a fallacy, not a debate.

;-)

Let me debate regardless: you may find the idea of commodity treatments amusing, but things are happening quickly. E.g. google "sipuleucel-T" and "breast cancer vaccine". Even the humble appendicectomy is increasingly replaced by medication. As these options improve, within our lifetimes diseases that used to impact hugely on our communities and provide incomes for thousands of surgeons will have treatment kits as easy to apply as a polio vaccine is today. And the surgeons are pushing it forward as quickly as they can.

Not software development, though: software development is too complicated for anybody except us. Uh huh.