Karine Sargsyan, Co-Founder and Scientific Director of St. Moritz Longevity Forum, Director of Cedars – Sinai, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Flashback to 2023 – Reality check in 2026
In Future Intelligence: The World in 2050 (Springer Nature, open access), we crowdsourced foresight from global leaders and scientists across five continents. As editor- in-chief and author of the “Future of Healthcare” chapter, I revisited my predictions three years later. How did foresight perform? Surprisingly well! Here are some developments I predicted based on crowdsourced ideas and my background:
- Wearables for prevention: Monitoring with smartwatches and wearable devices has become commonplace in cardiovascular risk assessment, sleep medicine, and management of chronic diseases.
Evidence: FDA digital health approvals; NEJM, Nature Digital Medicine; WHO digital health reports. - Genomics in daily medicine: Whole genome sequencing has become integral to oncology, rare genetic disorders, and pharmacogenomics, and is incorporated into EHRs.
Evidence: NIH All of Us Program; NEJM; ACMG clinical guidelines. - Robotic surgery in mainstream: It is beyond first-generation devices and has become more precise in urology, gynecology, etc. surgery.
Evidence: FDA device clearances; The Lancet Digital Health; Intuitive Surgical & next-gen robotics trials. - AI supporting primary diagnosis: AI is routinely used in radiology, dermatology, pathology, and triage—augmenting (not replacing) clinicians.
Evidence: FDA-cleared AI/ML medical devices; Nature Medicine; JAMA.
VR/AR transforming medical education - Smart homes influencing health behavior: AI-enabled refrigerators and home systems track nutrition and consumption patterns—nudging healthier choices.
Evidence: Samsung Health ecosystem; IEEE Smart Health publications. - Phones as mental-health sensors: Voice, behavior, and facial-signal analysis are now validated for depression and anxiety screening.
Evidence: Nature Mental Health; NIH-funded digital phenotyping studies. - Daily saliva and oral biomarker tracking: Smart toothbrushes and oral sensors already assess pH, bacteria, and inflammatory signals.
Evidence: Oral-B & Philips clinical pilots; Journal of Dental Research.
Biohacking goes legitimate
What was fringe is now reframed as longevity science, metabolic optimization, and preventive medicine.
Evidence: Cell, Nature Aging, FDA-regulated longevity trials.
Takeaway
Crowdsourced foresight works — when it’s grounded in science, diverse perspectives, and systems thinking. Many signals we mapped in 2023 are no longer speculative; they’re quietly shaping healthcare today.
Free open-access book Springer Nature
Your turn: Which predictions from your field are already becoming reality?”
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