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Teleview.” The glass screen would project images through radio waves, and the doctor would use a control apparatus resembling chopsticks to poke and pry at the remote patient. Unlike stir-fried noodles, the chop- sticks I mean, control apparatus were dropped once the technology was first picked up by the collabo- rative program between the Kaiser Foundation and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company in 1970. This program was influenced by NASA’s urge to ensure better medical care throughout long space missions. Still not as advanced as Gernsback’s original idea, this technology was a remote patient monitoring system that transferred medical records to the nearest hospital miles away. It would take until the early 2000s for the concept of telemedicine that we know today to enter the American home. Even then, the only ones using it were those who could afford physi- cians accommodating such high-end software. Now with advanced tech- nology at America’s fingertips, it’s no surprise that we would utilize this health care method twenty years later. Especially amid a looming pandemic. Though restrictions have been lifted, many health providers and patients prefer telemedicine appointments to in-person ones, especially for things like regular prescription refills. But who knows, maybe in another one hundred years, holographic physi- cians will be the new norm just as long as they don’t carry chopsticks and the telemedicine we know today will be obsolete.
1. What other functions did Gernsback intend for the Radio Teleview to have? (a) To sign documents with the robot controller (b) To perform/receive haircuts (c) To perform jury duty (d) To use the controller to fill out higher-education test questions 2. How many patents did Gernsback hold at the time of his death in 1966? (a) 8,000 (b) 80 (c) 8 (d) 800 3. Gernsback published Amaz- ing Stories (1926), which was the first magazine to . (a) Include a blueprint of the first radio (b) Ever be published in America (c) Be entirely devoted to science fiction (d) Include computer coding
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