Medical Futurist December 8, 2018

Verne imagined sensitive mirrors connected by wire as devices for telecommunication, a German technologist, Hugo Gernsback went for the “teledactyle” allowing doctors to not only see their patients through a view screen but also to touch them from miles away with spindly robot arms. These concepts help us understand the development curve of telemedicine and what we could expect in the future.

Verne imagined landing on the Moon

Past visionaries have always been very imaginative when it came to pushing the outermost boundaries of humankind even further off the usual. One of the most genius thinkers was French writer and father of science fiction, Jules Verne. He mentioned one hundred and eight sci-fi concepts and inventions in his vast oeuvre...

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