[Ads-l] med bed

[Jesse Sheidlower]

I do have a draft entry for _med bay_; the earliest example I have is from Damien Broderick in 1970:

https://archive.org/details/Vision_Of_Tomorrow_v01n06_1970-03/page/n56/mode/1up

This hasn't been researched, though.

Jesse Sheidlower
HDSF

On Sun, Oct 05, 2025 at 04:11:57PM -0400, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:
> 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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