{"id":20011,"date":"2015-12-15T08:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/artificial-intelligence-doctors-and-virtual-reality-vacations-are-on-the-horizon"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:46","slug":"artificial-intelligence-doctors-and-virtual-reality-vacations-are-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/artificial-intelligence-doctors-and-virtual-reality-vacations-are-on-the-horizon","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Doctors And Virtual Reality Vacations Are On The Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-doctors-and-virtual-reality-vacations-are-on-the-horizon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robot doctors, virtual reality vacations and smart toothbrushes. These are just a few of the things the world can expect to see in the not-so-distant future, says Stanford and Duke researcher and lecturer Vivek Wadhwa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a crowd of more than 300 people in Palm Beach in December at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chasewithorn\/2015\/12\/07\/billionaire-jeff-greene-says-technology-will-kill-white-collar-jobs-hosts-conference-on-inequality\/\" target=\"_self\">billionaire Jeff Greene\u2019s \u201cClosing the Gap\u201d conference<\/a>, which addressed the growing divide between the wealthy and poor and how the rise of machines might kill white-collar jobs, Wadhwa sketched a sci-fi vision for the future that he says will soon be a reality thanks to rapid technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future is going to be happening much, much faster than anyone ever imagined,\u201d said Wadhwa, explaining that tech growth has been exponential \u2014 meaning as technology advances it does so with increasing speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chasewithorn\/2015\/12\/14\/artificial-intelligence-doctors-and-virtual-reality-vacations-are-on-the-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robot doctors, virtual reality vacations and smart toothbrushes. These are just a few of the things the world can expect to see in the not-so-distant future, says Stanford and Duke researcher and lecturer Vivek Wadhwa. Speaking to a crowd of more than 300 people in Palm Beach in December at billionaire Jeff Greene\u2019s \u201cClosing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69017,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions\/69017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}