How will medicine change in 100 years?
Read the forecast of the candidate of medical sciences, surgeon, Andrey Sychev.
It seems that just yesterday we were waiting for the millennium with delight and trepidation, peering into the future with hope and anxiety: what will it be? Books and movies have described the 21st century as something distant and certainly fantastic.
And for 16 years now we have been living in the 21st century. The future has arrived. A colossal breakthrough has taken place in many areas of human life over the past hundred years.1 What now seems commonplace, until recently seemed impossible.
A man has been in space, split an atom, learned to fly faster than sound, gained almost unlimited access to incredible amounts of information, gained the ability to communicate at any distance without wires …
You quickly get used to good things, and now it is not uncommon for people to complain that the Internet is slow on the plane.
Medicine has also made a leap forward. Penicillin was discovered, followed by dozens of other antibiotics. Doctors have learned to deal with many previously incurable diseases. Ultrasound and MRI machines for diagnostics have been created.
People are operated using lasers and robots. Yes, a lot more! But we are already accustomed to this, and again we look forward with curiosity.
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The average human life expectancy will exceed 130-150 years. Improvement in the quality of nutrition, living standards and medicine over the past 100 years have already significantly lengthened human life, this trend will continue in the future.
Most of the currently incurable diseases, such as cancer, AIDS, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and others, will be defeated. Today, many ailments are successfully treated, especially if they are detected at an early stage. The further development of medicine and related specialties (for example, molecular chemistry) will forever save humanity from many diseases.
The development of cloning technologies will allow people to grow and transplant any damaged and lost tissues and organs. Recently, American experts presented to the public a live rat leg created in a test tube. So a start has been made.
Considering that biotechnology is extremely expensive, their cheaper and mass analogs will be robotic mechanical prostheses of lost limbs and organs, controlled by thought. The same technologies will be used to control computers and household gadgets and devices. Hello cyborgs!
By contacting a specialized genetic center, parents of an unborn child using a virtual simulator will be able to choose not only the gender and appearance of their child, but they will also be able to ask doctors to develop certain talents inherent in nature. This is how dynasties of brilliant artists, writers, doctors, athletes will emerge.
In orbit there will be clinics for the treatment of patients with diseases of the musculoskeletal system, diseases of the heart, blood vessels, the treatment and rehabilitation of which in zero gravity conditions will be faster and more effective. Ultrapure medicines will also be produced there.
Genetic engineering technologies will create symbiont bacteria that will live in the human body and, if necessary, produce and inject the necessary hormones, pain relievers, antibiotics, etc. into the blood of their host.
An alternative to such bacteria will be nanorobots - microscopic repair mechanisms circulating in the blood and destroying cancer cells, cleansing blood vessels, healing injuries and fractures.
Each person will be implanted with a telemetry sensor, which constantly monitors the state of health and sends a signal to the owner and directly to the nearest hospital in case of health problems.
Each house will have a robotic steward, capable, in addition to household duties, to perform the simplest therapeutic manipulations and, for example, a relaxing massage.
And only such an eternal problem as a runny nose can still be unresolved. And in 100 years we will wake up to say to each other "Be healthy!"