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Originally Posted by Rochard
I wonder if this is really true. Some of the US population is really, really dumb... A doctor will tell them to do one thing and they will do the direct opposite.
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Give it another 5 - 10 years.
https://qz.com/957285/star-treks-tri...ing-a-reality/
An inducement prize from Qualcomm of US$10,000,000, the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize that was announced in 2012, has spurred the scientific and medical communities in a global competition.[9] featuring 230 teams from 30 countries[3] to create such a device.[1] The X Prize Foundation launched the Tricorder X PRIZE at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and promised to award $10 million to the first team to build a medical tricorder.[10] According to the prize guidelines, the device should diagnose 15 different medical conditions, including a sore throat to sleep apnea to colon cancer.[8] The prize will be awarded partially on the basis of which invention has the most consumer friendly interface.[8] To win the prize, a successful medical tricorder will have to diagnose these conditions across "30 people in 3 days".[8]