More interesting than saving lives and making a boatload of money doing so? When it comes to quality of life, I don't think there is anything more interesting than something that could help. ...other than making a boatload of money doing so rather
"A California study published last year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that after an appendectomy, patients received bills varying from $1,500 to $180,000"
The problem of people neglecting to look after themselves won't be solved by a consumer electronics company as Nintendo discovered with the Wii Fit. A huge part of the problem is diet rather than fitness too and people just don't have time to track their diet. They can't easily get info about fat, sugar, salt content and calories in meals. Healthcare and fitness has been tried and tried in consumer products and it gets interest for the first few months because it's a new take but people always just end up ignoring it because to most people, life is too short to obsess over things like diet and fitness. It's far easier to laze around on the sofa and angrily tweet at healthy people about how they are body shaming people with their gym selfies:
And looking at 2115's operating room in 2215 will be even more antiquated looking than the way we look at the operating room of 2015.
Good game, this.
Personally, I don't think the leaps in technology between 2115 and 2215 will be as great as the leaps between 2015 and 2115.
I think that 2215 will be still using the ideas and technology discovered sometime in this century.
Operating rooms and surgery have been around for a lot longer than 100 years. We've had a lot of advancements but a lot of the techniques are the same.
What will be there in 2115 will be much different than anything we see today or anything we've seen over the last couple of hundred years or more in hospitals. Hospitals may even become things of the past.
A comparison would be the car. Same basic concept that has been around for thousands of years... wheels, cab and something to accelerate it that requires continuous fuel and roads. Jump ahead and imagine the cab but with no wheels and a self generating power supply and without land based roads (and possibly not even a cab).
"A California study published last year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that after an appendectomy, patients received bills varying from $1,500 to $180,000"
The problem of people neglecting to look after themselves won't be solved by a consumer electronics company as Nintendo discovered with the Wii Fit. A huge part of the problem is diet rather than fitness too and people just don't have time to track their diet. They can't easily get info about fat, sugar, salt content and calories in meals. Healthcare and fitness has been tried and tried in consumer products and it gets interest for the first few months because it's a new take but people always just end up ignoring it because to most people, life is too short to obsess over things like diet and fitness. It's far easier to laze around on the sofa and angrily tweet at healthy people about how they are body shaming people with their gym selfies:
I find that the best way to keep fit is to build it into my daily commute, rather than make it a separate thing. So I walk several miles a day. It has a purpose, and walking is good. I would like to have walked with Steve Jobs.
A very close friend of mine is director of a health insurance company. He and other high ranks from the health industry where invited to a presentation from Apple. They showed their new Apple-watch a couple of month ago to health pros. He normally is really a Apple- sceptic person but this blew him away. The implications are unforeseeable he says. The evidence created by these devises will be a problem. It will sure be huge. He has no doubt about it.
A comparison would be the car. Same basic concept that has been around for thousands of years...
The one piece of a car that has not changed in a century, since it's first iteration -- something that amazes me to this day -- is the windshield wiper.
Anyone who can come up with an improved 21st century version stands to make a killing.....
The reason western healthcare is such a huge industry is because it's a complete SCAM.
If Apple gets in this field I see them providing real and genuine service.
The healthiest people in the world refuse to get medical aid or visit a doctor.
Hell doctors life expectancy is LOW.
Now I wait for some ignorant human to reply "derrrr but Obama says..."
"Fox news tells me..."
Right... I'd say, take your meds... But you don't believe in them anyway... So, going back to the tinfoil factory instead; get the big roll this time.
Oh, and stop using insulin, transplants, antibiotics, vaccines, etc (a list one mile long of things that are a "scam").... Too bad we can't make you live in a world without modern meds so you can really eat your words. My father was born in the mid 1920s and he saw how it was before modern medecine was fully devellopped and your affirmation is completely idiotic. My father (90) and his brother (93) have lived longer than every single person in any generation before them (I have a full genealogical tree of 14 generations (plus partial ones that go to 16) (Quebec records are very very complete, which helps a lot)) that demonstrate that plainly.
A comparison would be the car. Same basic concept that has been around for thousands of years...
The one piece of a car that has not changed in a century, since it's first iteration -- something that amazes me to this day -- is the windshield wiper.
Anyone who can come up with an improved 21st century version stands to make a killing.....
I tend to assume that most things are invented by us.
A recurring theme from you.
You have a strong tendency to ignore the presence of the rest of the world. You frequently do not recognize other religions, political motivations, cultures, holidays, work schedules, global economic situations, etc.
If my watch could tell me when I needed to drink water and when a diabetic should take their insulin it'd be an amazing product with no other features – besides the time.
<div class="quote-container" data-huddler-embed="/t/184677/job-listing-offers-glimpse-at-advanced-medical-research-being-conducted-by-apple#post_2672546" data-huddler-embed-placeholder="false">Quote:<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Benjamin Frost</strong> <a href="/t/184677/job-listing-offers-glimpse-at-advanced-medical-research-being-conducted-by-apple#post_2672546"><img alt="View Post" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" /></a><br /><br />My mistake.<br /><br />I tend to assume that most things are invented by us.</div></div><p><br />A recurring theme from you. </p><p> </p><p>You have a strong tendency to ignore the presence of the rest of the world. You frequently do not recognize other religions, political motivations, cultures, holidays, work schedules, global economic situations, etc.</p><p> </p><p>Have you ever left Britain? Even once?</p>
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Something more interesting.
More interesting than saving lives and making a boatload of money doing so? When it comes to quality of life, I don't think there is anything more interesting than something that could help. ...other than making a boatload of money doing so rather
It’s not saving lives, though, is it?
It’s just prolonging our earthly life.
It’s not saving lives, though, is it?
It’s just prolonging our earthly life.
Well I guess it is subjective which is more "interesting". Our priorities change sometimes depending on the circumstances.
If folks work on healthcare, they are either good, bad, old, or greedy?
Still, the soap opera that is apple is fascinating to watch...
This is awesome - instead of having a spouse tell you your butt's too big, Apple will do it.
As opposed to what?
Chromebook competitors and holographic headsets, of course!
Not from consumerism though, it's from overcharging for medicine, equipment and services and from people neglecting their own healthcare:
http://www.businessinsider.com/redditors-appendectomy-cost-5502931-2013-12
"A California study published last year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that after an appendectomy, patients received bills varying from $1,500 to $180,000"
The problem of people neglecting to look after themselves won't be solved by a consumer electronics company as Nintendo discovered with the Wii Fit. A huge part of the problem is diet rather than fitness too and people just don't have time to track their diet. They can't easily get info about fat, sugar, salt content and calories in meals. Healthcare and fitness has been tried and tried in consumer products and it gets interest for the first few months because it's a new take but people always just end up ignoring it because to most people, life is too short to obsess over things like diet and fitness. It's far easier to laze around on the sofa and angrily tweet at healthy people about how they are body shaming people with their gym selfies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2913183/Weight-lifting-mum-accused-fat-shaming-posting-picture-rippling-abs-online.html
And looking at 2115's operating room in 2215 will be even more antiquated looking than the way we look at the operating room of 2015.
Good game, this.
Personally, I don't think the leaps in technology between 2115 and 2215 will be as great as the leaps between 2015 and 2115.
I think that 2215 will be still using the ideas and technology discovered sometime in this century.
Operating rooms and surgery have been around for a lot longer than 100 years. We've had a lot of advancements but a lot of the techniques are the same.
What will be there in 2115 will be much different than anything we see today or anything we've seen over the last couple of hundred years or more in hospitals. Hospitals may even become things of the past.
A comparison would be the car. Same basic concept that has been around for thousands of years... wheels, cab and something to accelerate it that requires continuous fuel and roads. Jump ahead and imagine the cab but with no wheels and a self generating power supply and without land based roads (and possibly not even a cab).
Totally different paradigm.
This is the next big thing. A $3 trillion industry (20% of GDP), in just the US.
Not from consumerism though, it's from overcharging for medicine, equipment and services and from people neglecting their own healthcare:
http://www.businessinsider.com/redditors-appendectomy-cost-5502931-2013-12
"A California study published last year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that after an appendectomy, patients received bills varying from $1,500 to $180,000"
The problem of people neglecting to look after themselves won't be solved by a consumer electronics company as Nintendo discovered with the Wii Fit. A huge part of the problem is diet rather than fitness too and people just don't have time to track their diet. They can't easily get info about fat, sugar, salt content and calories in meals. Healthcare and fitness has been tried and tried in consumer products and it gets interest for the first few months because it's a new take but people always just end up ignoring it because to most people, life is too short to obsess over things like diet and fitness. It's far easier to laze around on the sofa and angrily tweet at healthy people about how they are body shaming people with their gym selfies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2913183/Weight-lifting-mum-accused-fat-shaming-posting-picture-rippling-abs-online.html
I find that the best way to keep fit is to build it into my daily commute, rather than make it a separate thing. So I walk several miles a day. It has a purpose, and walking is good. I would like to have walked with Steve Jobs.
He normally is really a Apple- sceptic person but this blew him away.
The implications are unforeseeable he says. The evidence created by these devises will be a problem.
It will sure be huge. He has no doubt about it.
If Apple gets in this field I see them providing real and genuine service.
The healthiest people in the world refuse to get medical aid or visit a doctor.
Hell doctors life expectancy is LOW.
Now I wait for some ignorant human to reply "derrrr but Obama says..."
"Fox news tells me..."
Now I wait for some ignorant human to reply "derrrr but Obama says..."
"Fox news tells me..."
Not to worry... they're all on other sites raging about Obama's remarks at the Prayer Breakfast.
The one piece of a car that has not changed in a century, since it's first iteration -- something that amazes me to this day -- is the windshield wiper.
Anyone who can come up with an improved 21st century version stands to make a killing.....
If you think the Apple Watch is the only wearable fitness product the company will release, you're dead wrong.
That's my take as well.
There are persistent rumors here in Silicon Valley in the past few years that Apple has been testing "smart apparel" in Cupertino on its campus.
The reason western healthcare is such a huge industry is because it's a complete SCAM.
If Apple gets in this field I see them providing real and genuine service.
The healthiest people in the world refuse to get medical aid or visit a doctor.
Hell doctors life expectancy is LOW.
Now I wait for some ignorant human to reply "derrrr but Obama says..."
"Fox news tells me..."
Right... I'd say, take your meds... But you don't believe in them anyway... So, going back to the tinfoil factory instead; get the big roll this time.
Oh, and stop using insulin, transplants, antibiotics, vaccines, etc (a list one mile long of things that are a "scam").... Too bad we can't make you live in a world without modern meds so you can really eat your words. My father was born in the mid 1920s and he saw how it was before modern medecine was fully devellopped and your affirmation is completely idiotic. My father (90) and his brother (93) have lived longer than every single person in any generation before them (I have a full genealogical tree of 14 generations (plus partial ones that go to 16) (Quebec records are very very complete, which helps a lot)) that demonstrate that plainly.
Invented by an Englishman, I believe.
Invented by an Englishman, I believe.
I thought it was an American.... in fact, according to this link, a woman from Alabama: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mary-anderson-patents-windshield-wiper
My mistake.
I tend to assume that most things are invented by us.
My mistake.
I tend to assume that most things are invented by us.
A recurring theme from you.
You have a strong tendency to ignore the presence of the rest of the world. You frequently do not recognize other religions, political motivations, cultures, holidays, work schedules, global economic situations, etc.
Have you ever left Britain? Even once?