Looking Back At Today ’s Healthcare In 2060

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 a utopian future of healthcare might do so. On a chilly October afternoon in 2060, after having watched the leaves falling off the trees in our garden for 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, they adjust the relevant factors for optimising our well-being at home – and asked me whether I had lived in a house before which did not have such cubes. When I said yes, she looked at me with wide, marveling eyes and asked me to tell her how I had lived when I had been 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 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 d...
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