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Answering the headline: maybe, when we finish getting out of the 'steam age' of medicine. Long term might grow closer to current science fiction. Very precise
by mjevans 7y ago
Answering the headline: maybe, when we finish getting out of the 'steam age' of medicine.
Long term might grow closer to current science fiction. Very precise robotic surgery at an atomic level reconstructs whole bodies (my favorite case being the beginning of The Fifth Element), less extreme examples also exist and we might someday get to the point where "knives" are replaced with gentle 'unzipping' tools or even grey-goo that slowly scrubs over an area and just sets everything correct.