"Kids, remember yesterday when they said there was No future? well--- this is it!" - Blank Reg. This blog is about the future or lack thereof and how our 21st Century present has or hasn't lived up to the 20th Century vision of the Future.I write about the history of the Future, the future of the Future and pretty much anything involving robots.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
The doctor is on-line!
A London hospital is testing a tele-presence robot which allows doctors to make rounds and see patients from a remote location (say, home or the golf course or... maybe a call centre in Bangalore). Okay, first the bedside manner goes... now docs don't even have to come to the bedside! The question is will patients line up to sbe seen by a moblie tv screen? Given the state of the English health service... probably. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4555555.stm
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For some reason I can't help but remember an episode of Red Dwarf where Holly got demoted to something like a security guard. He was just a TV on a rickety tv tray on casters.
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