All of us were talking about technology applied to very specific fields: computers, telecommunications, space exploration, nuclear energy, AC energy generation, gadgets, etc.

But medicine has been largely omitted, or chemistry, or metallurgy, among others. As for medical advances:

- The STENT.
- Computer controlled laser based heart tissue alteration
to prevent deadly arrhythmias.
- Glasses that allow color-blind people to see colors.
- Prostetics for inner ear and (around the corner) for the
blinded eye, with direct connection to neurons, allowing
deaf people to hear or blind people to see.