morning again, my post got me thinking on this stuff and my...

morning again,

my post got me thinking on this stuff and my fascination with technology.

Anyone who has seen me post over the years knows my interests - ground breaking technologies - and, with the odd dash of gold thrown in (and, probably would be a lot wealthier without the interest in gold as well).

But, mainly - it's technology and usually, but not always - technology that can or might produce a better world.


On MDR - my interest is not only that I think it already produces a better world (people are helped by this thing a lot - already) -- but, the way this thing may well go --------- no one knows.

At the moment - what is it? Well, sort of (and, I will probably do it a disservice here) -- it's an app. that helps people manage their pharmacy needs ------ it not only makes life easier - but, can make it a hell of a lot safer as well.

However - lets say it stays in business for a decade or 2 at least - whether the current owners own it or not - irrelevant.

What might it be in say 20 years?

Who knows? - The whole game is in a massive state of change - rapid change - and all things medical, pharmaceutical and the like are right up front in that change.


Take Apple - Jobs and mates started making computers in the 70's -- just computers.

Who saw the ipod coming in 2001?

Who saw the iphone coming?

Ok -- an ipad ------- ?? maybe - it's a sort of computer - very portable -

but, a music revolution and a telephone revolution - a telephone that has more computing capability in one little phone than we had in 1969 to send man to the moon and back.

Did Jobs see that in the 70's?

I don't know - I can't remember his history now - but, I will bet that the majority of people in the world didn't see it all coming and I will bet London to a ton of bricks that early Apple investors didn't see it either - no way.

Now - back to MDR and 2016 ---

look forward 20 years - what do we see possible?

Well - already, we have RAP and their diagnostic respiratory app which seems deadly accurate.

We also see groundbreaking stuff coming with other remote diagnostics ----- phone apps. that use saliva etc.

It's all happening in a very big space and in very quick time --- VR, AI (art. intel) - it's huge and it's coming like a train.


So - all this stuff ------- is it going to be all separate? Or, is it going to be integrated.

Are we going to be all over the place using things in a disjointed fashion - or are we going to incorporate it like Apple did into a device like an iphone -

or probably a better example - like google went from a simple search engine - into google mail, google, calendar, search, cloud - and god knows what is coming - probably google transport, delivery etc. etc.

So with companies like MDR - which is just on the verge of the pharmaceutical game - what's next?

Well - GP link, that's what's next.

Then - in the future? Medical diagnosis tools? -------------- Why not?

Hospital records? Why not?

Health records? Why not?

Fitness records? Why not?

DNA stuff? Why not - in fact - if it's to do with health - that's almost a dead cert that someone is going to do it.


Now - I am not saying this is going to happen with MDR -- but, if we look at the way things have gone - with the apple example and google -

well - health is a huge area ------- isn't it obvious that someone sooner or later is going to integrate all this stuff?


This is a really exciting time for technologies ----------- and, companies like MDR - well - we just don't know.

Who would have said that a couple of blokes in a garage in the 1970's would end up building the largest corporation on the planet before 2020 -?

But, they have.

Look at the biggest earnings companies on the planet now (is it earnings or is it MC - can't remember) - you know - the biggest transport company doesn't own any cars, the biggest tech companies that don't do anything physical - whatever that business is that is going around lately -

well - MDR doesn't own anything either - no pharmacies, no doctors surgeries etc. etc. - but, it is signing them up like hot cakes - where will it all go??

No idea - but, I sure want to keep an eye on it - it's all a fascinating time in history. We should all take note of the apples and MS's of the world - in the 'personal' space - they weren't the first in - but, they were very early - and, they were the first that made things human friendly (well, close to human friendly - bar the odd chucking a screen out the window )

all my opinion - and none of this is to say it's a good investment or not ----------- just very very interesting.

have a great day all

Pinto