The old and the new- brave new world

 
 
Today Taz had a bonanza hunting if the trophies around the cat flap are anything to go by: one squirrel, one half grown rabbit and another big rabbit stuck in the cat flap.
 
He may be a domesticated cat, though he looks awfully like Scottish wildcat, and I suspect he has wildcat in him not that back in his ancestry.
 
Now for the new. My partner M had to have a blood test this morning. Now in the past if you went to our local health centre for this procedure it would involve at least five people (technician to take the blood, courier to take it to the lab, another technician to analyse it and a clerk to process the results followed by a  nurse to ring up with results. Total 6 people. Time taken 8-24 hour.
 
 
Today the whole procedure had become automated and involved one technician taking a pinprick of blood. It took less than five minutes and employed one person.
 
 
The brightest young students in America, I heard the other day, are discouraged from taking up medicine because in the future robots will do it.