Several years ago I was involved in a workshop at a global IT company and when we were talking about the future of patients and their data, I posited that patients might look to monetise their own health data. Especially where they had an unusual condition. Everyone was appalled and thought I was going too far. Yesterday I read an article that described a platform for patients to do just that.

It is another example of the consumerisation of Healthcare embracing the future while the constraining factors such as ethics, privacy and security are largely left behind.

We really do need to get better at gaming what the future might hold and working though how we would manage the issues associated with technological advancement.

In the U.K. TV series Years & Years, the younger daughter decides to go fully into biohacking and have a silicon wafer implanted in her brain. The company that does it has rights to what she sees and captures her brainwaves with the intention of creating algorithms to predict her thoughts. How do we feel about this? Excited, scared, angry, violated?

The meshing of organic and hardware-based intelligence is in my view, inevitable. It is the logical extension of augmented intelligence. How do we manage this future? It’ll be with us soon ...