One of my buddies called me, on reading my previous post and recollected how he encountered several brilliant doctors growing up. He asks, "Where are they now?".
I recollect visiting a particular dentist growing up, who had a roaring practice. My friend's dad (who was a good friend of the dentist) and I were waiting in the waiting room, when the dentist arrived. He waved at us from a distance and we waited for our turn.
As we entered his office, the dentist greeted my friend's dad and says to him, "Looks like the boy has a problem with the third teeth on the upper right row."
I remember gaping with awe, "That's impossible, how did he know it? I don't even recollect him looking at me before. Yet he seems to have noticed the way I clenched my teeth, in the nanosecond, that he walked into the office, amidst the sea of faces".
Let's face it. The intelligence that we created to handle the grand scale and scope of health care, with its accompaniments of the insurers and lawyers, have swept away the wizards and replaced their brilliance with mediocrity.
No point in being a luddite or being nostalgic about the past. Instead the mighty task that we have is to, bring back the wizards, by connecting their intelligence to the intelligence that we created. ...and such a Connected Intelligence is the alternative future, I dearly envision to Ray Kurzweil's.
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