Marc spent three weeks in Kenya in February and March of 2024. A highlight of the trip was his stay in Maasai country. It is where he came closest to the everyday life of the people, from small children to the Laibon, grand chief of the 1.5 million Maasai people. Marc traveled there with a group of conservationists, plus a storyteller and a videographer. This video one result of their work.
On October 14, I’ll be doing a keynote address at The Patient and The Practitioner in the Age of Technology: Promoting Healing Relationships, a medical conference at Brown University in Providence, RI. The title of my talk is "Story and Data: Embracing the Past and Creating the Future.”
I recently encountered an incontrovertible and mind blowing fact. 1970 is equidistant from 1918 and 2022. In 1970, when I was 22 years old, 1918 seemed impossibly long ago. My grandfather was 20 years old in 1918. Compared to my current perspective as a retired family doctor, 1970 doesn’t feel to me nearly so far from today as 1918 did in 1970 when I was a first year medical student.
It’s been two years since I’ve published reviews of healthcare IT articles, not that there haven’t been tons of interesting factoids, studies, and commentaries out there. My file currently contains 253 pieces awaiting my comment. I’ve held off adding mine to the cacophony of voices because, well, there are so many already vying for your attention. However, I’ve recently come across a couple of articles that I believe shout to be heard. They deserve a bit of your valuable attention because each delivers a provocative meta-perspective on where we’re at.
If I were asked where to locate the essence of physical identity, I would answer without hesitation, “in the immune system,” the part of our physiology tasked with distinguishing each of us from everybody and everything else in the world. The face comes in second. By messing with images of our face, technology messes with who we are. My message here is consistent with my overall view of technology. We need to be deliberate and careful in how we use it, especially when we capture, process, analyze and present images of ourselves.
University of Colorado Ed II South, Room L28-1102 (across from the bookstore)
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