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In the early hours of a Saturday morning, here where comfort and care are primary concerns, I pause to reflect on the past few days.

Today, my nephew, Nicholas, receives his secondary school diploma, a right of passage, a ritual, a proof of socioeconomic conditioning we call education.

I had planned to attend the event and spend time with Nick and his family.  Instead, diverted by a medical emergency for my loved one, I find myself in the middle of a facility dedicated to wellbeing, Huntsville Hospital (a thanks to Nick's family and others (Rob/Tam, Barbara) for in-room flowers).

Of the issues and events of the day all over the universe, my focus has narrowed considerably.

But that's life, isn't it?  Although portions of a person's brain and body have some autonomous and some semiautonomous functions, the person's actions in the moment are evaluated as a one-at-a-time sequence.

Breathing, heart pumping, food processing, walking, talking, texting, active thought processing - many-at-a-time.

Which is it?

I look at the level of states of energy and know one answer.

I look at the network of members of our species and know another answer.

Can we really see reality?

Most of us accept the general conditioning of our upbringing that limits processing of our momentary stimuli.

What do we gain by opening up awareness of the stimuli and the automatic/"subconscious" body processes?

After sitting here in the hospital, watching all the wonderful folks dedicated to the health and wellbeing of others, listening to their stories about their families and their work histories, I ask myself what we as a species add/subtract, gain/lose, increase/decrease by way of enhancing our brain/body interactions.

Folks like Delores, Magan, Tiffany, Steve, Temeka, Lisa and Katelyn.  Many, many more faces and smiles.

How would the effectiveness of the links of life change if every one of us was more closely "wired" together?

If a person's body vital signs were monitored by a personal digital health assistant, could that anticipate and prevent emergency situations?  Or at least alert the person (or the person's chosen health advocate) to pending downhill health slides before crashing and the bottom completely dropping out?

I know the concerns about the effects on one's health of power lines and wireless/radio communication devices - with enough time, money and testing, we'll know enough to make wise(r) decisions deploying high-power electromagnetic radiation.

In the meantime, I look at the body using the omnipresent encyclopedic oracle (the OEO, WWW or Internet, if you insist).

What if all of our body parts were supplemented with "smart" nanotechnology, a wireless mesh network that not only tracked our functioning levels but allowed us to work with our network of medical professionals to optimise our wellbeing for us?

Imagine your body management system (BMS) being able to compare and contrast lab studies that show the latest improvements in nutritional intake and update the firmware/software in the BMS according to parameters you've established after consulting with the medical professionals you've contracted to monitor you?

Perhaps I should ask Dr. Rice - let's start with what such a system could do to optimise one's GI tract IPO (input/processing/output).

First, it's time for some input of my own, preferably supplemented with caffeine.  Afterward, I want to think about how to get young people excited and stay excited about studying and working in the fields of medicine, science (pure and applied), engineering and IT.