(ARPA)] pictures every soldier carrying four small devices: 1) a global positioning system locator; 2) a friend/foe identification broadcaster … 3) a vital-sign monitor that can sense blood pressure, temperature, and other indicators, and evaluate whether the soldier is all right … and 4) an automatic communications link that would start broadcasting as soon as the vital signs went beyond normal parameters.
Predictor: Satava, Richard
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Wired magazine, Joe Flower explains the types of changes that could come in health care through the use of networked computing, quoting Dr. Richard Satava of the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Flower writes:”[Dr. Richard Satava of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)] pictures every soldier carrying four small devices: 1) a global positioning system locator; 2) a friend/foe identification broadcaster (‘We are attempting to decrease the 20 percent of casualties we lose to “friendly fire,”‘ says Satava.); 3) a vital-sign monitor that can sense blood pressure, temperature, and other indicators, and evaluate whether the soldier is all right, injured in some minor way, in shock, or dead; and 4) an automatic communications link that would start broadcasting as soon as the vital signs went beyond normal parameters.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Other Revolution in Health Care: Leave Hillary and Bill Out of It … The Health Care System is Going to Change Drastically Over the Next Decade
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/healthcare_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney