I was in early this morning, arriving at the medical hub shortly after the cleaners had put themselves away. I had booked an early pod in case of delays — last week the hot weather had caused trouble with the Hyperloop and interfered with the Halbach arrays, but it was plain sailing today. I slotted into place, gazed into the recognition lens, powered up the interface, and began checking my appointments for the morning. Five real-life and 13 virtual: pretty much as expected — getting around isn’t so easy any more. Only two new patients — double appointments for their stage 1 genomic counselling. Everyone else will have been fully sequenced and risk stratified, as well as having pre-consultation bloods and imaging. Scrolling down the results suggested we were in for an interesting morning: some weird brain …