In 1980, futurist Alvin Toffler published The Third Wave in which he described the evolution of agarian economies to industrial economies to post industrial economies (The Third Wave) and discussed the impact that transformation would have on society. Most of his predictions have come true, including the creation of what he termed "prosumers" i.e. outsourcing the production of a service to the consumer like self service check out at grocery stores, pumping your own gas and using ATM machines instead of tellers. We're not there yet, but telemedicine, I believe, will follow this trend and evolve in four stages or waves.
Stage one, which we have experienced ...