I'm Elise Hugh. You're listening to Ted Talks Daily. Whether it's paper forms, long waits,

or files found on CD-ROMs, physician Daniel Kraft says health care is woefully behind when it comes

to the technological innovation that has already revolutionized other industries. In his 2020 talk from TEDx

Marin, he reveals the crucial ways the pandemic is spurring rapid change and beginning

the health age in the same way the Cold War set off the space age. As a small child, I was

lucky to be at the launch of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, and I've remained enamored with space ever since and fortunate as a physician to have contributed to NASA Life Sciences research and to practice aerospace medicine, inspired by the cross-disciplinary teamwork acquired to tackle audacious challenges,

and how spaces often brought the world together through the lens of seeing our planet as one

without borders. Now, just as the historic Apollo moon landings for transformational

inflection points in history, so too is the global health crisis of COVID-19, which despite its many challenges and tragedies,

like the sinister Cold War setting which launched the space race, can have silver linings.

As Regina Dugan, former head of DARPA wrote, Sputnik set off the space age, COVID can spark the health age.

The silver linings include the unprecedented acceleration of innovation, collaboration,

and discovery, catalyzing a future of health and medicine that can help us reimagine

and bring us a healthier, more equitable post-COVID world.

Now, many solutions ride the rails of rapidly or exponentially developing technologies

that are rapidly doubling in their speed, price performance, as exemplified by Moore's Law,

which has enabled the billion-fold improvements in memory and computation, resulting in the

ubiquitous supercomputer smartphones most of us carry in our pockets. I still have my now ancient

iPhone 2. Still works, which felt magical 12 years ago, but now it feels slow and clugee. I'm sure my

iPhone 11 will soon seem antique, perhaps as its features dissolve into the rumor to soon arrive

augmented reality smart classes. Now, exponential technologies packed into our smart

devices are becoming increasingly medicalized. Their sensors are able to detect an ear infection

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