Title page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Future of Health Technology Institute "Common Sense in Health"; Elevator to the Future; Human Soul Sculptured by the Suffering; Contents; Goals and Unsolved Problems; Consumers Era -- Sociotechnological Environment; Healthons Era -- Technology on Our Body, in Our Body and All Around Us; Cyborgs Era -- Implants, Merging Humans with Machines and Caring Machines; Hi-Tech Cure and Care Era -- Examples: Future of Cancer and Addiction Control; Long Life Era -- Extending Human Life-Span and Future of Caring for Elders.
Summary
Human body and the world in which it functions is a changing complex adaptive system. We are able to collect data about it, but the challenge is to infer local dynamics from that data. Intelligent Caring Biomechatronic Creatures and Healthmaticians have a better chance of inferring the dynamics that needs to be understood than human physicians.