This technology already exists and there is something like Elysium that already exists. We are dealing with a breakaway
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Kaiser50 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 08:22 PM)
Well, medicine is a field that is 'ripe for disruption', in Silicon Valley parlance. We must keep in mind that the medical establishment that is in need of fixing has only been 'established' for 70 years - it developed after WW2. Before the war medicine wasn't really a big enough field for that to happen! My great hope is that powerful emerging technologies will combine with ever-increasing computing power out of pure necessity, to confront one stark societal fact - 75 million Baby Boomers in their 50s and 60s, and the oldest of which are just about to hit 70 this year. It is an overwhelming demographic force.
The Boomers are the wealthiest and best-educated people of their age in history, familiar with technology and suspicious of monolithic, slow-moving corporate entities. They saw how the combination of very long lives and a poor understanding of degenerative illness by the medical establishment resulted in long, drawn-out mental and physical decline for many of their parents, and will do whatever it takes to keep that from being their fate.
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5535 — 11 years ago(February 19, 2015 08:26 AM)
I think this is all possible, though not for a very long time.
There would need to be another tank with human tissue, cells etc for the med bay to take from in order to repair whoever was inside of it. Also, I think it would have to be more robotic, even if with tiny robots, as oppose to just a laser scanning over the person. Nano bots would need to go into the body and repair the damaged sections, and the nano bots would need to have a brain and mind of their own in order to do so.
In the next 50 years, I could see us having a med bay 25% as good as the one in the movie, but not more advanced than that. It would have skin regeneration abilities, as well as providing sutures and healing gels, and would be able to provide smart bots to fix bone breaks and such. I also believe that MRI's could be conducted with the ability to actually heal some brain trauma through the use of waves which could help mend bleeding and injuries. Little nano bots would also be around to send through the blood stream, which could also travel to the brain to fix leaks, and clots (Doubt clotting will be an issue in 50 years), brain tissue damage and damage to other areas of the body. -
nomanjohan — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 02:52 PM)
No
. Humans can't even create a single molecule or cell of any living or non-living organism; We are only capable of changing forms of what's already there by manipulating properties of other materials or catalysts that are already there as well. -
nomanjohan — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 02:56 PM)
No
. Humans can't even create a single molecule or cell of any living or non-living organism; We are only capable of changing the forms of something what's already there by manipulating properties of other materials or catalysts that are already there as well. -
iCode_v2 — 10 years ago(May 14, 2015 06:13 AM)
Don't know if it's possible to have med bays like that.
Time will tell.
What I do know is that the phone I have in my pocket right now has twice the storage space and god knows how many times the computing power that was used for the entire first manned mission to the moon, so I wouldn't rule it out. -
neihrick — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 03:24 AM)
Matter of time. Recent success with harvesting stem cells from skin come to mind. Maybe building up a personal bank of stem cells to heal future injuries. Studies with telomerase enzyme reversing aging, and the auf1 gene extending life and controlling cancer give me hope; as well as learning how naked mole rats are cancer free.