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Telesurgery definitely deserves a mention here. Imagine you could be operated on by a specialist surgeon anywhere in the world. You just go into an operating theater with robots and a high-resolution camera and the surgeon operates the robots remotely. This is fully mature technology. Open collaboration makes this possible, as you have access to all the world's surgeons.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1681689/
Telesurgery, but also fully robotic surgery won't be far behind.
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