As of 2017, consumer expenditures on healthcare comprised a total of 63% of all healthcare expenses. This amounts to a total of $2 trillion spent on hospital care, clinic services, and retail prescription drugs. These services represent a form of repeated healthcare where patients have to continuously move in and out of hospitals for chronic conditions that haven’t been cured yet.

When they run the highlight reel of my greatest dad moments, this weekend’s dinner conversation with my kids will definitely be left out — the look of terror in their eyes, the curious and confused look of my wife that said it all: “What are you thinking?!” At that moment, I realized the future of robots, AI and the latest digital technology can be a scary concept — if poorly explained. It started nicely enough, talking about how Mother Nature and natural selection are things of beauty. But I strayed a little off topic when I explained that in the not-so-distant future, parents could apply emerging technologies to design their babies — and that this was not necessarily a good thing…