This is the Mako Stryker:
I just stumbled across the Mayo Stryker in an article about ’12 Medical Miracle Technologies’ on Medium. All twelve will save countless lives, but this one made my heart skip a beat:
Those of you who’ve read the first book of the trilogy – Miira – may remember the scene in which an autonomous AI controlled robot pares Miira’s body back to the bits that still work. The process is overseen by a team of surgeons who never touch the patient at all.
That scene was more or less in its finished version by May, 2015.
I don’t have a crystal ball, nor do I have the kind of expert knowledge that results in a breakthrough like the Mayo Stryker, but I am a problem solver, and it seems that my theoretical, fictional solution was logical enough to become real.
Before I get too fat a head, however, I have to acknowledge how much I get absolutely wrong, starting with the speed of development. I think a great many of these logical solutions will become reality decades before I thought they would. Ah well… I’ll take my wins where I find them. 🙂
cheers,
Meeks
Meeka's Mind 
February 10th, 2022 at 12:07 am
Good science fiction always anticipates technology. Love this one!
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 10th, 2022 at 8:57 am
Thanks, Candy. -huge hugs- sometimes I really, really need to hear that.
Now – are you better? And is there another Monster in the offing?
LikeLike
February 9th, 2022 at 4:20 pm
One of my friends had an operation in Barts Hospital London two days ago using robots …it is happening around the world and apparently, they don’t shake like someone’s hand/arm can ..Brilliant!
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 9:11 pm
That’s excellent news, Carol – and no, they don’t shake, or sneeze at the wrong moment. 😀 I assume the one in Barts Hospital does only one kind of procedure??
LikeLike
February 9th, 2022 at 9:16 pm
I honestly don’t know Fiona was under the Thoracic dept..
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 10th, 2022 at 8:59 am
If you find out, I’d love to know. Btw how is she going? Send me an email?
LikeLike
February 9th, 2022 at 2:37 pm
Yep, Meeks for the win there! 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 9:13 pm
lol – I feel a teensie bit ashamed of blowing my own trumpet but I figure, I’m 69, time I got over all that being oh so modest and polite stuff we had drummed into us. Emancipation!
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 10th, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Toot your own horn, m’dear. Toot it loud and clear! 😀 … if we don’t, then who will?
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 10th, 2022 at 7:13 pm
-giggles- so true! -toot toot-
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 6:35 pm
Yay – always such a good feeling when something you wrote starts to happen. Go you!
Regarding the timing thing: I think that’s always the most difficult. Far too many sci-fi authors are too optimistic and think everything will change in just a few years but they never do because there are always snags with new tech 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 10:09 pm
lol – I think I went too far in the opposite direction. You’re right though, that’s one of the things that makes scifi date. I mean even 1984, one of the best scifi books ever written, got the timing terribly wrong. Sadly the meat of the story is starting to come true.
Anyway, how’s everything going? Are you managing to do any writing? Is everyone safe and healthy?
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 7:25 am
Thanks for asking, a.c. All good here, in the second half of Book Five so not doing much of anything other than working and writing *hugs*
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 8:26 am
That’s great, Chris. Really looking forward to the next one. It’s odd but while I can remember the general story arc of Repulse, I can’t remember the details so each new book feels ‘new’. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 8:41 am
Thank you, dear friend. Yup, next few weeks are key to nailing the first draft. Everyone and everything else gets left behind now 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 9:08 am
lol – your family are very forgiving. :p But it is in a good cause.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 5:39 pm
I read a rather awful thriller/murder mystery in which a surgical robot ran amuck and killed a patient in a rather dramatic way. It was actually the best part of the book (in a way).
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 10:10 pm
LMAO – there speaks a sort-of horror writer! I guess that’s the Frankenstein theme. 😀
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 2:59 pm
That was great forward projection, Meeks. I have a robotic assistant in my current cli-fi WIP but, admittedly, I didn’t think this up. I read an article about it on the World Economic Forum.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 10:15 pm
I think some form of robot helper is inevitable. lol In Japan they already have robot waitresses. To be honest I can hardly wait. Unfortunately I suspect they’ll be integrated into things rather than being stand alone ‘robots’. Boy I’d love to see one. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 5:08 am
I quite like human waitresses. I always end up in conversations with people and I learn a lot about different lifestyles.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 8:31 am
lmao – My ex was like that, always chatting to people, very much a people person. Me? Back when going out for a coffee was normal, I’d have my nose stuck inside a book. Definitely more hermit material. 😉
LikeLike
February 8th, 2022 at 1:23 pm
Pretty cool stuff.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 10:19 pm
I like to keep up with tech but it’s changing and developing at a furious rate. Definitely cool though. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 9th, 2022 at 3:24 pm
Definitely.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 1:08 pm
Attagirl! Keep it up.
LikeLiked by 1 person
February 8th, 2022 at 1:19 pm
lol – thank you! I just wish I could get the timing just a /little/ bit right. 😉
LikeLike