The healthcare industry is facing a number of challenges today. Between a very real labor shortage, and the need to keep everything clean, the industry is facing an uphill battle if it doesn't find some help. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Conor McGinn, CEO, Akara Robotics, to address this very topic and he has an interesting solution. Here is a hint: it's a robot. "We see a lot of opportunity in the healthcare system, largely due to the fact that there is this chronic labor shortage and without technology we just don't have a chance to solve," McGinn explains.

All that must sound really apocalyptic, but I'd still like to believe that machines won't completely destroy humans in terms of earning a livelihood. We have had this controversy before every major change. During the Industrial Revolution, manual laborers feared that steam machines were going to take away their opportunity to earn a day's bread. And they did, for the time being, but in the long run, things got much better for society in general. There is a reason why, in all this time, even with the rapid advancement of technology, nothing has truly replaced humans or made them secondary in the world's hierarchy.