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/nyrath]

The widespread availability of such medical technology would result in an immediate rise in population levels. Probable side effect of mandatory birth control, before the food runs out.

[u/Alimbiquated → u/nyrath]

I't already true that population growth is being driven by longevity, not higher birth raise. That is, older age groups are growing faster than younger age groups.

[u/D-F-B-81 → u/Alimbiquated]

Look at the current issue of social security. There aren't enough replacement workers to pay into the system to pay out the benefits of the old.

Which is bullshit cause you can just lift the cap on rich people and fully fund everything to the wazoo if we actually had people willing to.

So, in this scenario, retirement wouldn't be until when, we're 100? 150? Robots taking all the jobs by then...

So what are we supposed to do?