The alarm around possible exploitation due to public medical data far exceeds the ground reality. At the same time, it has stifled progress in the field leading to more deaths than we should have to tolerate.
Big Tech is not a thing, just like big-sensors was not a thing. Electric sensing became a thing in the 1900s, and the medical community benefitted from the machines built because of them. Tech is similarly a tool that has become available to all fields over the last 30 years. By treating big-tech as a bogeyman, we end up anthropomorphizing an inanimate marker of of progress in our time. It's Scientific cartelized Amish-ness.
My controversial & intentionally provocative opinion for a while has been : "Doctors are evil". The more I read about it, the more I feel like there is an ounce of truth there.
Big Tech is not a thing, just like big-sensors was not a thing. Electric sensing became a thing in the 1900s, and the medical community benefitted from the machines built because of them. Tech is similarly a tool that has become available to all fields over the last 30 years. By treating big-tech as a bogeyman, we end up anthropomorphizing an inanimate marker of of progress in our time. It's Scientific cartelized Amish-ness.
My controversial & intentionally provocative opinion for a while has been : "Doctors are evil". The more I read about it, the more I feel like there is an ounce of truth there.