The future will be filled with robots and AI that assist humans in every type of job. In this blog we explore the real world and fictional inventions that are transforming healthcare in the 2020s and the 2050s.
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Better than Streaming
It's so hard to watch movies on the streaming services when the stories you write yourself are better than most of the things they are offering. Oh, the burdens of being an original writer.
Mouse Knitting DNA
I love this statue. It is a tribute to the part that mice, as a species, have played in the advancement of medical science. It appears in a park in Siberia, Russia in front of one of their science laboratories....
Telesurgery in Ficiton and Imagination
I spoke to a room full of surgeons about the future of robotic surgery, using advanced technologies described in my fiction series "Dr. Monica Grey". It went over fantastically well. The audience was more interested in my speculative ideas than in many of current...
Robots and AI
I talked to Chris Russell about the future of robots and AI - specifically ho
Society for Robotic Surgery – I’m a Speaker
Speaking at Society of Robotic Surgery 2024 Annual Meeting on Telesurgery in Fiction and Imagination. Thanks for the great turnout! hashtag#SRS2024. Recorded Presentation: https://youtu.be/KGs0Qf7cDTM
Tech vs. Character Cover Images
I loved the original cover of the first book because it was very "techie". But as I have fleshed out the characters, I am more attracted to showing them on the cover. I am in discussions with my designer to shift to something like the second picture for a new edition...
Childhood’s End, Still Great After 70 Years
I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke. It was written in 1953 describing man's first encounter with aliens. But this encounter is not like anything in today's movies. It's a 180-year saga of an alien overlord species who...
Tech Exploited Podcast: Robotic Surgery, AI, Deep Learning, and LLMs
I talked with Sharon Pak on her Tech Exploited podcast. We discuss robotic surgery and AI (Deep Learning and LLMs). #AI #roboticsurgery #deeplearninghttps://www.techexploited.com/
Kickstarting A Lifelong Habit
"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke was the first science fiction book I ever read. it was assigned to me by my high school English teacher. When we finished that module, he assigned me "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein (a daring move given its racy...
Spotting Opportunity
Memory 1: I was a contractor supporting a government office in Florida. The government rep overseeing the work had been shipped out of the headquarters to this remote site - meaning her career was stuck. The first time I walked into her office, I noticed stacks of...
Freyja $AI novella is out now
Adventure, an Escaped AI, Deceit, Cyber Battles, a Search for Identity, and World Domination. This short novella has it all, plus an AI and her human creator who are in an unbreakable love/hate relationship. Buy it for just 0.99 on Amazon (or free with KU)....
Murder Mystery Project
I love to go on “running vacations”. This used to mean a long weekend someplace running a Spartan or Tough Mudder race. But it has progressed to full 1-2 week vacations with other runners. I know it sounds like a sickness. Who would enjoy starting each vacation day...