> In Star Trek, they can heal wounds by shining a light on them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photore

> In Star Trek, they can heal wounds by shining a light on them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy > They can erase and alter people's memory https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14572521 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14572521, plus lots of pharmacological stuff in spook-land which is well-attested but rarely peer-reviewed. > They can scan for problems using a handheld device. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/ai-system-detects-skin-cancer-study/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/ai-system-detects-s... > We are nowhere near any of that. In the case of your specific examples, we are. It's early days and unevenly distributed, but actually we are getting there.