They all mentioned the following roles: monitoring their vital signs and weight, administering oral medications and injections, being with the doctors during consultations and assisting in physical examinations, consoling and encouraging them.
On the console, physical media is important for a few reasons and, while the urgency of these are rapidly diminishing, they still exist in most of the world.
You can can now voice command Podcasts, essentially, or interact with it from your in-car interface with your physical or touchscreen console controls.
With consoles like Ouya and the aforementioned Steam Box, manufacturers are slowly training consumers to accept the possibility of a console without physical media.
Instead of changing up the physical design of the console, Sony is offering 1TB of storage on a jet black PS4 Pro alongside the RDR2 disc and a dual-shock controller.
Digital downloads (of both media and games) are a threat to physical game reselling, but console games haven't hit the tipping point yet for that, and I expect disc-based games will stick around for at least four or five more years as a standard method of protecting content.
Gamers have become used to controlling games consoles with physical movements using devices such as the Kinect - Microsoft's motion-sensing device that can track the movement of objects in three dimensions using a camera and depth sensor.
Ostensibly, Google would want to acquire Valve to take control over the digital distribution business, which is ushering in an era of downloading games directly to consoles without physical media and the company could even use it as a new means of software distribution.
That's because it's a question of when, not if, the physical discs on which most console games are now delivered go away.
In short, they understand the primary value of the console as a physical media player.
