According to LessWrong, Midjourney announced a medical-scanning spa where full-body ultrasounds integrate with luxury wellness. The promise: cheap, frequent health scans that catch disease early. But a recent analysis asks: why do science fiction futures so rarely arrive as envisioned? Two paths seem likely. First, the technology might not work as promised—AI models could hallucinate, and false positives could overwhelm diagnostic systems with unnecessary cases. Second, even if the tech works perfectly, regulatory skepticism and the medical establishment's burden of proof might confine it to a niche wellness tool rather than a transformative public health service. Drawing on precedent with biotech and cloning, the author notes that society often rejects transformative technologies wholesale, confining them to incremental research. The pattern: friction stops both disasters and miracles. For Midjourney's spa, the future likely lies somewhere in between those outcomes.

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