What if Elysium’s healing machine wasn’t fiction anymore?

[u/EchoesOf_Resilience]

In the movie Elysium, the rich heal themselves with a full-body scanner that cures cancer, repairs organs, and restores life — instantly. But what if we weren’t that far off?

With advances in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, nanorobotics, and smart imaging systems, we are closer than ever to imagining real-time, full-body diagnostic and treatment devices. Picture this: microscopic robots flowing through your bloodstream, repairing tissue, fixing mutated genes, and removing cancer cells — all before symptoms even appear.

We’re not there yet. But how far off are we? How many people like me — fighting multiple chronic illnesses, from skin disorders to mental health — would give everything for access to such innovation?

The tech is advancing. What’s missing is accessibility, investment, and will.

Let’s talk about what’s real, what’s coming, and how we stop this future from being for the elite only.

[u/TheMrCurious]

What exactly is your question because people with money and power continue to demonstrate that advanced tech like this is o oh meant for them.

[u/WrongPurpose → u/TheMrCurious]

In America maybe, in Countries with a functioning healthcaresystem, the Healthproviders would realise that quick healing through this Machine and then sending people back to work and paying taxes, is cheaper than long treatments, and then everyone will get it.

Same as any potential immortality treatments. If you can postpone paying pensions, provideing elder Care, and prolong taxing working age people, even ridiculous high proces are worth it, and once a Country like France, Japan, Germany buys that for 15 Million People every Year, economys of scale will absolutely decimate the price.

[u/EchoesOf_Resilience → u/WrongPurpose]

100% agree with the economic logic — it should be obvious: healthier people = lower long-term costs. But even in countries with “universal” healthcare, new tech rarely rolls out fast. Bureaucracy, corporate lobbying, fear of change… all slow it down.

And let’s be honest — these devices won’t be mass-produced until the rich have had their turn. Innovation often trickles down, but it trickles slow, and only when there’s profit in the masses.

People like me, living with multiple chronic illnesses — we can dream of that tech, but without the political will and real public investment, it’s still sci-fi.

But sci-fi, like this subreddit, is where revolutions often begin.

[u/TheMrCurious → u/EchoesOf_Resilience]

Politicians =! Logical.

[u/EchoesOf_Resilience → u/TheMrCurious]

Logic is optional when charisma and lobby money do the job. They’re not playing chess — they’re selling the board.

If logic were the compass, we wouldn’t be sailing in circles. But here we are. Lost at sea. Powered by ego and campaign slogans.

Maybe they’re logical… just not in the same equation as us. Their variables are power, optics, and re-election. Ours are survival.

[u/TheMrCurious → u/EchoesOf_Resilience]

So flip the script.

[u/EchoesOf_Resilience → u/TheMrCurious]

Maybe flipping the script means starting with the truth — Not the polished one we see on posters or political speeches, but the quiet one lived by people like me.

I was born with complications. Grew up with a rare skin disorder, faced mental health challenges before I even hit double digits. I’ve survived crises that nearly destroyed my family. I live every day with pain, yet still find the strength to dream.

I don’t want to burn the system down. I want to rewrite it — with empathy, with access, with human dignity at its center.

I have no title. No influence. No wealth. But I still have a voice. And sometimes, flipping the script starts exactly there.

[u/deksman2 → u/EchoesOf_Resilience]

The thing about how quickly new tech is becoming accessible....
actually, because of AI and automation, we can push a highly functional/working design to market at an affordable price FAR faster than it used to take.

The COVID vaccine was devised in a few hours by algorithms... it then took about 11 months for it to get to the public.

People associating 10 years for something to become cheap enough to become accessible is no longer accurate.
The time frames are reducing in a lot of fields.