Advancing technology might eliminate some diseases, and make treating others trivially easy. Note that nobody dies of smallpox anymore. That disease no longer

Advancing technology might eliminate some diseases, and make treating others trivially easy. Note that nobody dies of smallpox anymore. That disease no longer exists in the population, it has been eliminated. IBM Watson will (eventually, kinda does now) automate diagnosis. Respirocytes[1] would eliminate decompression sickness, and make it pretty hard to bleed to death, with a medic handy. A Vasculoid[2] would eliminate bleeding entirely, as well as blocking all blood-borne diseases, by the simple expedient of replacing blood with something else. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirocyte 2: http://jetpress.org/volume11/vasculoid.html http://jetpress.org/volume11/vasculoid.html