The end of the road for Science?

Man has achieved a lot – beginning with the rubbing of stones and producing a fire, inventing simple stone and metal tools, to inventing the wheel and so on. Then came the telephone, television, satellites, the internet, orkut and facebook. Everything became controlled through touch and everybody wanted no wires around their devices. They all wanted connectivity throughout the day and everywhere they went. Want preceded need. People did everything on these gadgets, from talking to buying to getting entertained. However, that’s not what I wanted to write about. All publicity is bad publicity when the product is superfluous. Somewhere along the line, a bunch of people departed from the thought of making the wheel rounder, smoother and ‘grippier’, and (wisely, since you asked) began working on medicines and understanding the human body. Now we can go into the brain without opening it, we can change a person’s heart; we can even cut him open and stitch him back, without him knowing it (at least till he wakes up). Specialists have become so specialized that no one understands them anymore. I am sure that within the next decade there will be people specializing in such minute and detailed parts of the human body, that to talk about/cure an ailing organ would need (at least) the same number of doctors as the number of cells in that organ. So, a brain infection would need, umm, how many, 1 million billion doctors? They might probably even be enacting functionalities! I guess they could also share and tweet about it. By now, you mustbe wondering as to the source and the reason for this rambling.

Keeping the above referred background in mind, how hard can it be to make a common man’s commonly available tablet for common cold not taste repulsive? My survey shows that the number of tablets which I don’t like exceeds a mouthful. Is it a scientific challenge of medical/astronomical proportions to coat tablets (sugar or chocolate, please) such that they could actually taste a little pleasant? While at it, a separate survey conducted over several cuisines and over a large number of years in several cities, indicates that my taste buds are generally in agreement with the ones belonging to mass public, so it’s proven to not be a question of bad taste. Well, pardon the tasteful pun, but, it is and it is not when one bad tablet is enough to spoil the breed.
Further research and deep diving into the topic reveals that I might have some scope for improvement left in the procedure I follow for swallowing a tablet, but then, science surely can work around it too now, can’t it? Why, where I work, a whole lot of interdisciplinary science allows one to compensate for the generally-and-thankfully-found-in-males-heavy-right-foot disorder and for the slow-closed-loop-control exhibited by the automobile driver, to say the minimum.
If science fails to make a better tasting tablet by the next time the season ‘changes’ (since that is the cause of at least the common cold), and a tastier tablet irrespective of swallowing procedure, it is the end of Science’s road, as far as I am concerned.
Not the peak, nor the pinnacle kind of end, but the dead end of a road or a broken bridge on a swollen river.