The future - fully automated surgery...

...Meanwhile, the practice of surgery itself will continue to change. Prognostication is a hazardous enterprise. But if the past quarter century has brought minimally invasive procedures, the next may bring the elimination of invasion. One feels foolish using terms like nanotechnology — I haven't the slightest idea what it really means or can do — but scientists are already experimenting with techniques for combining noninvasive ways of seeing into the body through the manipulation of small-scale devices that can be injected or swallowed. Surgical work will probably even become fully automated.
The possibilities are tantalizing. A century into the future, a surgeon will tell the tale — that is, if the world still makes such people. Mehr