Year 2075 - A personal vision on healthcare

GOOD MORNING FUTURE

It's February 19th, 2075. The world has transformed, and you are the living proof of a brighter, healthier, and more hopeful future.

You wake up after a perfect night of sleep. Your smart mattress, seamlessly integrated with your IoT ecosystem, continuously adjusted the perfect room conditions for your needs. You remove your smart sleeping mask, which for years, has quietly analyzed your brain waves, constructing a digital twin of your mind to protect against unforeseen injuries. It will also serve as the starting point of your digital upload. Technology experts now expect it to be only a couple of decades away.

Your once-beloved wearables like smart rings and watches have been long replaced by a tiny marvel nestled beneath your skin, a microdevice that gathers unique insights about your biology to design a full-body digital twin. Of course, this is not enough yet. The job is completed by smart mirrors and home appliances while occasional check-ins are automatically booked based on when special longitudinal data is best captured.

Welcome to the healthcare ecosystem of tomorrow.

The city is full of Nano Theaters: friendly, spacious, bright clinics of the future. A full-body scan, including a blood test and an AI-powered MRI, lasts a couple of minutes. Yet you still have 20 minutes available, extendable up to an hour, to discuss any specific concerns with your doctor. If not needed, you simply walk out.

The beauty of this new world is that it feels both revolutionary and familiar. Revolutionary because the whole ecosystem works, healthcare has followed the same playbook of neobanks. It’s efficient, fast, and accessible through a super-app. You have full control over your data, you decide whether to allocate any portion of it to research, and you even get direct payment back if any of it has led to successful drug developments. Familiar because even if the old public system is still in place, full-stack healthcare startups have introduced monthly subscriptions with better services at the same price, thanks to automation, technology, and ingenious business models. For example, non-necessary cosmetic surgeries, now at a much higher premium, can easily subsidize more urgent operations. Extra revenue is also generated through the diets and supplements, which are adjusted to the specific needs and shipped to destination on same-day delivery.

You're 78 years old, but you look and feel like 35. Your cells can now be engineered to rejuvenate for a bit. It’s not perfect, so you still need to do it once every couple of years. But you know, we will get there.

While accidents still occur, the solution is no longer a miracle. Organs had already been grown using your digital twin as a blueprint and stored in underground biobanks, ready to be used. Remote surgeries, powered by AI and autonomous robotics, are swift and precise, rendering the notion of remission obsolete. Diseases are on the way to becoming relics of the past. Whatever the challenge, a cure designed just for you can be synthesized within days and delivered right to your doorstep.

Public perception has also changed. New legislation and technologies allow for perfect safety and ownership of data, which is lent away anyway due to aligned incentives on life-critical predictive models and direct-to-customer compensation, either in services or monetary benefits.

It’s a new renaissance for society. The world got much smaller and much more lively. Old but youthful parents spend more with old but youthful children, no matter where they are. People, no longer drained by bad health, can travel more. They can just do everything, much more than before. People are freer. No longer bound to loved ones affected by a disease, individuals can prioritize different life choices and take more risks, better fulfilling their lives.

Good night future, the best is yet to come.