The History of The Future of Medicine – Remote Care

Verne imagined sensitive mirrors connected by wire as devices for telecommunication, a German technologist, Hugo Gernsback went for the “teledactyle” allowing doctors to not only see their patients through a view screen but also touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. These concepts help us understand the development curve of telemedicine and what we could expect in the future. Verne imagined landing on the Moon Past visionaries have always been very imaginative when it came to pushing the outermost boundaries of humankind even further off the usual. One of the most genius thinkers was French writer and father of science fiction, Jules Verne. He mentioned one hundred and eight sci-fi concepts and inventions in his vast oeuvre – seventy was already realized: the spaceship, the television, the machine gun, air conditioning or the atomic bomb. He fantasized about a colossal submarine powered by electricity crisscrossing the oceans, the Nautilus, decades before the modern submarine was built. He drew up the concept of space travel in his tale From The Earth To The Moon. Not only that but he also gave calculations and described the entire process: a capsule called “projectile” is fired off into space. He guessed it would be the Americans who’d do it and foretold the place of launch right within 50 miles: a facility in South Florida. Also, he imagined the capsule to splash down in the ocean and to be recovered from the sea. Regarding communicatio...
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