Short-term
2026–2028 — Impacts already visible or imminent
Healthcare & Wellbeing: Shortterm (20262028) Current State AI in healthcare has crossed the threshold from experimental curiosity to clinical reality. By early 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized over 1,000 AI and machine learningenabled medical devices, with the ...
Medium-term
2028–2033 — Transformations underway, accelerating
Healthcare & Wellbeing: Mediumterm (20282033) Current State By 2028, the foundations laid in the shortterm period have matured into a healthcare system where AI is not an addon but a structural component. The question is no longer whether AI belongs in medicine but how deeply it should ...
Long-term
2033–2046 — Projected scenarios, structural shifts
Healthcare & Wellbeing: Longterm (20332046) Current State By 2033, AI has become as fundamental to healthcare as the stethoscope or the Xray machine a technology so deeply embedded in clinical practice that its absence would be inconceivable. The transformations initiated in the shor...