I was doing internship with Dr. DFDeS Gunewardena, in 1965 May when he had room built to house a 'Gastro-camera', donated by the Japanese. I never saw the colour of it. I was told that the gastroscope housed, a teeny-weeny camera with teeny films. With the advent of 'fibre-optics' and the 'video camera' sending electronic signals via fibre optic cables, we saw the first endoscopes with eye-piece viewers. With the screen monitors this technology advanced so much to what we have in endoscopic surgery today. We are witnesses to an era which is still progressing into unknown territory. Artificial intelligence will take over most of these fields and we will have the leisure to enjoy a bicycle ride on sunny days.
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