The light and the dark sides of the moon: possibilities of Industry 4.0 for early non-invasive diagnosis of pathology and health-risks

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is an innovation infrastructure based on global digital connectivity to create smart plants and provide global automation in science and society. In Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things is used to collect big data from embedded sensors into live and inanimate objects. “The health calculator is positioned as a universal objective measure of human health, since it can be used not only in any disease, but also in preventive medicine, in particular, in examining astronauts and athletes and in life-risk occupations. However, even such a deeply thought-out software as health calculator requires its further development, that is, the transition to a second-generation device in which health is assessed from other methodological points of view. We have tried to summarize Industry 4.0 into medicine. We began to construct “Digital Twins” with the psychological “twins organisms”. In the future, this structure will serve as a bridge from psychology to psychopathology. To conclude, Industry 4.0 can bring to humanity unique opportunities in maintaining health and preventing diseases and at the same time engaging it in qualitatively new stressful situations. Therefore, now it is worthwhile to look for ways to increase human resistance to new versions of informational stress.