Answer: Becoming a doctor or a surgeon is an honorable goal, but it is a long and challenging process, beginning with pursuing a bachelor's degree. The path to being a doctor typically takes a minimum of 12 years AFTER high school, specialties with extensive training periods can take five or more additional years.
Cyber-physical systems are helping firefighters detect and deter fires, improving agricultural practices and enabling scientists to mitigate underwater oil spills. Advances in cyber-physical systems will enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security and usability that will far exceed the simple embedded systems of today.
Factory work and Cyber-physical systems may have a 6C system: 1  Connection (sensor and networks) 2  Cloud (computing and data on demand) 3  Cyber (model and memory) 4  Content/context (meaning and correlation) 5  Community (sharing and collaboration) 6  Customization (personalization and value)