One requirement for a community to function well is for that community to be healthy. In the recent past, and in centuries long gone, the human experience of health has been dogged by plagues, pandemics and pestilences. The human experience also includes suffering in the emotional and mental spheres, in the breakdown of relationships and families, in the pain of physical injuries that are visited upon our bodies, as well as the precious and delicate sunrise and sunset stages of life. And across all of this our knowledge has advanced. We are more aware of hygiene now than several centuries ago, and we have a wider range of medicines than we had even several decades ago.
This all speaks to change. For just as we have witnessed advances in medicine and approaches to mental health, so we will see further improvements in medical technology and cognitive science. The health care and social assistance industry has, and will continue to, experience change — and that is what this topic is about. What could happen in terms of careers and business. A futurist’s take on how things might pan out over the next 10 years or so.
Specifically, though, the future of this industry is viewed through the lens of climate change and computerisation. For these are the two global megatrends that are shaping much of the world as we know it. There are other global…
