There has been quite a bit
of hope for smartphones and smart watches when it comes to health monitoring.
Many dream of an app that would monitor your body needs for nutritions, rest,
activity and potential problems. Wouldn’t it be great? You get up in the morning
check your smartphone and it says that you should eat oatmeal with some carrots
and have a cup of green tea for your body optimal metabolism. Even better the
application have discovered a potential problem and attached id
badges for immediate intervention so that you could defeat cancer
before it even got to the phase of being dangerous. We could be living much
happier, longer and more productive life with such optimizations. How far are
we from that?
Seems like pretty far. Over centuries we have managed to get an idea of certain functions of our bodies without cut opening organs. For example a tool as simple as stethoscope was invented as late as early nineteenth century in France. For some reason nobody before that was able to appreciate listening to the sounds coming from our organisms. One simple tool allowed for great progress in diagnosing respiratory, circulatory and digestive conditions. X-ray and ultrasound imaging have been equally if not more ground breaking technologies in medical imaging and moved diagnostic part of medicine into a different age.
Still when it comes back to dreams of integrating any electronics into a human body we didn’t get far. Part of it is definitely our immune system which does great job protecting us from external danger but since we can’t drive it we can’t expect any physical electronic interface attached to human tissue to be treated any differently than a hostile bacteria tribe. Transplantology suffers from this issue from its beginnings and the progress is rather modest at best. Suppressing the system altogether has been the main focus of this process, very far from perfect but still life saving for those in need of transplants. Any electronic part in the body that is not an absolute surviving requirement would need a selective solution such as immune responses exclusion list. Let’s face it, we’re galaxies away from that stage of knowledge not to mention implementation.
Quite a bit of effort has been made on the brain side to expand it capacity by adding some of computer functionality to it in terms of processing power or memory. Science fiction offers countless scenarios how could human brain benefit from integration with simple computer functions. Here however the immune system looks like just a minor obstacle in the big picture. The big gap is the logical interface. Truth is out knowledge level of how brain works is even lower than the immune system since the nervous system is extremely complicated not only in terms of anatomy but even more in terms of function. What we know pretty much comes from accidents or horrible torture experiments when a person loses part of the brain and from the fact that certain function is gone we assume it must be responsible for it. This is more reverse engineering in attempt to attach custom id badges for for which part does what rather than getting a functional diagram on how it works.
Both medicine and technology experiences breakthroughs yet in terms of a mobile device application to show us a lot of our current condition I wouldn’t bet any money for it to appear any time soon. There are a lot of more important and more profitable goals ahead of it.
Seems like pretty far. Over centuries we have managed to get an idea of certain functions of our bodies without cut opening organs. For example a tool as simple as stethoscope was invented as late as early nineteenth century in France. For some reason nobody before that was able to appreciate listening to the sounds coming from our organisms. One simple tool allowed for great progress in diagnosing respiratory, circulatory and digestive conditions. X-ray and ultrasound imaging have been equally if not more ground breaking technologies in medical imaging and moved diagnostic part of medicine into a different age.
Still when it comes back to dreams of integrating any electronics into a human body we didn’t get far. Part of it is definitely our immune system which does great job protecting us from external danger but since we can’t drive it we can’t expect any physical electronic interface attached to human tissue to be treated any differently than a hostile bacteria tribe. Transplantology suffers from this issue from its beginnings and the progress is rather modest at best. Suppressing the system altogether has been the main focus of this process, very far from perfect but still life saving for those in need of transplants. Any electronic part in the body that is not an absolute surviving requirement would need a selective solution such as immune responses exclusion list. Let’s face it, we’re galaxies away from that stage of knowledge not to mention implementation.
Quite a bit of effort has been made on the brain side to expand it capacity by adding some of computer functionality to it in terms of processing power or memory. Science fiction offers countless scenarios how could human brain benefit from integration with simple computer functions. Here however the immune system looks like just a minor obstacle in the big picture. The big gap is the logical interface. Truth is out knowledge level of how brain works is even lower than the immune system since the nervous system is extremely complicated not only in terms of anatomy but even more in terms of function. What we know pretty much comes from accidents or horrible torture experiments when a person loses part of the brain and from the fact that certain function is gone we assume it must be responsible for it. This is more reverse engineering in attempt to attach custom id badges for for which part does what rather than getting a functional diagram on how it works.
Both medicine and technology experiences breakthroughs yet in terms of a mobile device application to show us a lot of our current condition I wouldn’t bet any money for it to appear any time soon. There are a lot of more important and more profitable goals ahead of it.
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