In fact, it is an almost certainty that within the next few years, three biometric options will become standard features in every new phone: a fingerprint scanner built into the screen, facial recognition powered by high-definition cameras, and voice recognition based off a large collection of your vocal samples.

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The ongoing assessment and treatment by the paramedics could be available to the hospital-based team supporting them, and the documentation might not even require touching the computer because of voice navigation, voice recognition and noise-cancelling microphones developed for an environment as noisy as combat.

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