Modern Technology.

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With modern advances in technology, where will it lead in the future. What do you expect to see?

(I changed the subject slightly).

While I was last in work, they were looking for something as someone had made an enquiry, so I asked what they were looking for just incase I had seen it. They said "An expensive helmet with bluetooth. The computer says we have one in stock"...
"Blue tooth in a helmet?" I answered. (I still don't know why one wants bluetooth in a helmet or a car etc.. What does it do? The only thing I have ever beenable to do with blueteeth is send photographs from my old tablet to this one as my brother showed me how to do it).
My work collegue then said "Yes. It also has indicators and if you crash, it has sensors to automatically phone emergency services and broadcasts your location".
Umm. Well it could save a life, but knowing how life is, one is more likely to accidently drop ones helmet on the floor, and then be blissfully cycling away wirh a trail of blue flashing lights behind you...
But seriously. Have we taken things a bit too far?

I sure hope we have relatively cheap robots that clean your house and cook food.

I think there will be some big leaps in healthcare (well, I hope), like algorithms to read x-rays (we'll still need radiologists to confirm things but this would speed up ER visits for patients and stuff like that). I hope we eventually put all of the gobs and gobs of data we're collecting to practical use to increase efficiency and quality of patient care. There's too much disjointed administrative processes that go on, and I'm hoping better technology will streamline and reduce the need for that.... somehow.