Remote Surgery
One possible idea has started to appear with the emergence of surgical robots is the possibility of developing a robot which could be controlled remotely by a surgeon either in another room or on another country. This could provide remote areas with the high-quality surgical care of a metropolis with a surgeon on-call. Thinking militarily, this could provide front line solders with the life giving surgical care which could not otherwise be provided due to encirclement or putting surgeons at risk while accessing the wounded. However, this idea still lags behind the technology. "A major obstacle in telesurgery has been latency -- the time delay between the doctor moving his or her hands to the robotic arms responding to those movements. Currently, the doctor must be in the room with the patient for robotic systems to react instantly to the doctor's hand movements" (Bronsor, 2009). With Moore's law in action, this could become a more realistic possibility very soon.