Google plans ROBOTS to SLICE YOU OPEN AND CUT YOU UP Google has signed a deal to collaborate with Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon to work on surgical robotics applications. The J&J statement says the two companies will “bring together capabilities, intellectual property and expertise” in building a robotic-assisted surgical platform, with the kind of supporting sentence …
with the kind of supporting sentence that can only be crafted by the dead hand of investor relations.
Almost... they missed "synergies" and "shareholder value"....
There's also the question of information organisation: surgeons often need multiple screens in the operating room so they can check medical images, look over the results of previous surgery, and help navigate the patient's anatomy.
No ads then? Or tracking of the patient? Hmmm... this is so un-Google-like. Is the world coming to an end we haven't heard?
but to install the biometric micro-chippery that you'd be unable to get to yourself. Might as well do it while necessary invasive surgery is going on, right? All it will cost you is a little bit of data on how well things work out, ultimately. Everybody wins!
Everybody knows that scarcity determines value - so - whenever a company have a product or service they want to appear really valuable, they put something in the branding that they / the product completely lack (which, therefore, appears very valuable to the sales-side).
Which is why we know never to trust anything with "trust" in the name, we know that anything "smart" has been dropped on it's head from 10 stories, "simple" is incomprehensible complexity, and that "value" means "cheapened even lower than shit" - while roses can grow on shit, this product sucks life itself away. Et Cetera, Politics is the same BTW.
Google are going to make the UI? Well, that'll suck then. Google UIs are terrible. And they change all the time. I'm sorry, but I'd rather not have surgery assisted by a Googlebot. I can see it now: my chest cracked open while the doctor is about to do something to my heart and the inevitable strangled cry of the frustrated nurse: "Google, stop moving my fucking buttons!" For lack of information, I die on the table why everyone tried to figure out the new UI.
Cloud!
Well we all saw how well a device of this nature worked on Naomi Rapface in Prometheus.
& I can't help but think of this from Doctor Who - The Robots of Death
"There was a Voc therapist in Kaldor City. Specially programmed, equipped with vibro-digits, subcutaneous stimulators, the lot. You know what happened, Borg? Its first client wanted treatment for a stiff elbow. The Voc therapist felt carefully all round the joint, and then suddenly just twisted his arm off at the shoulder. Shoompf. All over in two seconds."
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