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Week 4: Medicine + Tech + Art

Wong, Virgil. "Discoveries in Virtual Reality" Virgil Wong 2022. Sourced                                                                     from: https://www.virgilwong.com/
    

During this week's lecture about medicine, technology and art, I thought of a couple of different ideas related to the lectures the most. As the professor pointed out, medicine and technology for medicine came out of war because of the constant need for quick rapid aid to soldiers. Specifically, Virgil’s 3D system that can show you what your healthy self looks like. I feel that this is essential for nutrition, health and wellness. This not only promotes self wellness and health but actually is super technologically advanced. As explained by Virgil, “Medicine helps us live longer lives, but art is about why we live” (Virgil 2021). Eduardo Kac has also created an outer space art piece which spelled the worlds “MOI” meaning “me” or “myself” (Kac 2017). This also represents a human figure and the umbilical cordAccording to the professor and Week Fours lecture, this can be seen related to back in DeVinci's time when people would make anatomy artwork on scriptures. As last weeks lecture was on robotics, Tickle Robots have been invented as an automated skin therapy robot and according to Medicinenet, soft tickling can actually act as a stress reliever or management (Uttekar 2021). A lot of medical devices today are also being automated. According to Med Design, “Automated medical device production reduces product variability and improves overall quality” (Ponti 2019). Currently, I am a recruitment consultant for Tech companies but specifically automation so I can fully understand the industry and where it is headed and why.  The majority of all the artwork is telling us is that technology is the future, especially with medical devices. According to Health Care Digital, "automation can help patients receive access to better treatment more quickly, and for as long as healthcare professionals feel confident in the technology and are able to focus their efforts on more specialist requirements, the future of health could be much more advanced" (Hawkins 2021).

Pasquet, Thomas. "Inner Telescope" KAC 2017. Sourced from: http://www.ekac.org/inner_telescope-                    new.html




Uttekar, Pallavi. "Is Tickle Good For Health?" Medicine Net 2021. Sourced                                                                from: https://www.medicinenet.com/is_tickle_good_for_health/article.htm













References

Crotti, Nancy. "How Automation Can Boost Medical Devices Success" MDD 2019. Sourced                                   from: https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com

Hawkins, Lelia. "The Future of Health is Now Automated? How Do We Get There?" Health Care Digital             2021. Sourced from: https://healthcare-digital.com/technology-and-ai/future-health-automated-                    how-do-we-get-there

Pasquet, Thomas. "Inner Telescope" KAC 2017. Sourced from: http://www.ekac.org/inner_telescope-                    new.html

Uttekar, Pallavi. "Is Tickle Good For Health?" Medicine Net 2021. Sourced                                                                from: https://www.medicinenet.com/is_tickle_good_for_health/article.htm

Wong, Virgil. "Discoveries in Virtual Reality" Virgil Wong 2022. Sourced                                                                     from: https://www.virgilwong.com/

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