Mundell, it appears, has in mind an elaborate and carefully orchestrated evolutionary process, beginning with his signature Optimal Currency Areas (OCA) that he believes will lead the world back to hard money or its near equivalent through an evolutionary political process.
Because it can take months of steam injection to bring the reservoir up to optimal temperatures, producers are loathe to halt the process for fear of damaging their sands and gumming up their gear.
But in the absence of actual evidence to that effect, my bias is that cancer is too individualized and too complex a process to believe that even the most sophisticated algorithms can provide a technologically-accelerated shortcut to optimal cancer care.