Science Fiction

A cornucopia of new jobs will be born, some of these we can predict now, but surely, there are many we don’t even know will exist in 20 years.

Enhancing human capabilities has been on the mind of people for ages, but superhumans came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons.

An oncologist administering nanorobots that swim through a patient’s bloodstream to deliver drugs in a highly targeted way. A person on a specific diet scanning their meal with a single device to reveal all of its major nutritional elements. A clinic’s transplant department 3D-printing whole organs. These are scenarios that sound like snippets extracted from a science-fiction novel. But these are digital health technologies that we will have to get used to in the future.

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There are so many good examples all over the world after all, related to certain sub-segments. Let’s imagine how healthcare would look like if we could combine all the best practices. 

Every now and then we see something that freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist. From robot nannies taking care of human babies grown in artificial wombs to waking up with an electric shock.

Medical A.I. will surely become competent enough to efficiently deal with a great number of health questions. But tricking patients into believing they interact with a human practitioner when they are not is an entirely different issue.

Can you image there were times when people had to wait for other people’s death to have a new liver instead of just printing it? When drugs are not personalised to your genome, and peple could die of cancer?!

As adding animals to a number of therapies provided benefits human therapists could not achieve, the same seems to be true for adding robots to some therapies: they can provide assistance neither humans nor pets can offer.

A lot of evidence-based studies have been proving the use of VR for medical purposes. But can the same happen with the metaverse too?

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