Imaginary Conversation In 2050 With My Future Grandchild About Today ’s Healthcare

I receive many questions after my talks and on my online channels about the not yet visible future. People want to know what healthcare will be like in the next decades. But throwing around predictions will not help us design a better healthcare. Although showing an utopian future of healthcare might do so. On a chilly October afternoon in 2050, after having watched the leaves falling off the trees from our garden too long to get bored, my beautiful and overtly curious grandchild, Nina, came to me and started asking me questions. She pointed at one of the many CubeSensors in the living room – small, very simply designed cubes which measure air quality, temperature, humidity, noise, light, air pressure and based on our personal information it adjusts the relevant factors for optimizing our well-being at home – and asked me whether I lived in a house before, what did not have such cubes. When I said yes, she looked at me with wide, marveling eyes and asked me to tell me how I lived when I was young. She liked to ask about the past. I told her about the unbearable heat in third-floor apartments during hot summer nights without proper air-conditioning and the inconvenience it caused when you could not set the right amount of light for working. Nina was satisfied with my responses, but I had had the impression she still had something on her mind. I asked her about it. She told me that she heard a word from her fellow first graders and she did not know what that was, but ...
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