The bottom line
Wearables, connected medical devices, implants and biological sensing are steadily narrowing the boundary between people and technology.
Why it matters
The near-term story is less science fiction than continuous bio-connectivity: devices on and around the body generating useful health data. Over time, the same trajectory reaches deeper into diagnostics, augmentation and human-machine interfaces.
From the foresight archive
Jim Carroll first published this as Megatrend #3 on 2025-06-26. He revisited it one year later on 2026-08-07, using the retrospective to test the original call against what had happened since.
In that retrospective, Carroll’s own shorthand assessment was: Nailed it — and undersold the wearables and IoMT side specifically. Brain implants make the headlines. Wrists, hospital beds, and insulin pumps are where bio-connectivity actually already lives.
This page treats the 2025 article as the original foresight call and the 2026 article as the first evidence checkpoint. Later signals and scorecards can be attached without rewriting the historical record.