the democracy deficit

Could there be a sort of device which helped the elderly avoid falling?
A device combining state of the art robotics and AI?

I say this thinking of my 88 year old father.

If a team of researchers at, say, MIT, worked on this....

If they had worked on this starting in the 1960's, say, what, by now, might they have come up with?

Instead, they gave us the Internet and Drones.

And there was never a public discussion of these uses of public money.......