[Ads-l] med bed

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Great work, Jesse.
Below is a plot synopsis of the 2013 movie parable Elysium. The
advanced medical bed devices are called Med-Bays. Only a subset of the
population are able to access Med-Bays.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535108/plotsummary/
[Begin excerpt]
In 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a
huge and luxurious Stanford torus-style space station called Elysium,
and the poor who live on an overpopulated, devastated Earth. While
residents on Earth are policed by ruthless robots, Elysium's citizens
live in comfort and regularly use bed-sized medical devices called
Med-Bays to keep them free of disease and injury.
[End excerpt]

This YouTube video shows glimpses of the Med-Bays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETreC62bitE

Garson

On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I have an entry on the science-fictional history of _medbed_s:
>
> https://sfdictionary.com/view/3049/medbed
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> HDSF
>
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 01:59:58PM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/president-unhinged-trump-online-behavior-140040934.html
> >  :
> >
> > Setting aside the fact that the idea of “med beds” is a rightwing
> > conspiracy theory – one version of the theory posits that the government
> > and/or a group of wealthy Americans have access to medical bed-like devices
> > that can cure almost every illness, but are withholding the technology –
> > Trump’s post prompted a number of questions
> >
> > JL.
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