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I was about to argue against you, but here is some nuance from a bbc article about minitel:

It was the whole model that was doomed. Basically to set up a service on Minitel, you had to ask permission from France Telecom. You had to go to the old guys who ran the system, and who knew absolutely nothing about innovation. "It meant that nothing new could ever happen. Basically, Minitel innovated from 1978 to 1982, and then it stopped," he says. But others are less critical. Valerie Schafer, Thierry's co-author, says "the way Minitel is now fobbed off as risible and old-fashioned" is unfair. "People forget that many of the ideas that helped form the internet were first of all tried out on Minitel. Think of the payment system, not so different from the Apple app-store. "Think of the forums, the user-generated content. Many of today's web entrepreneurs and thinkers cut their teeth on Minitel," she says. "The world did not begin with the internet."

Tale as old as time sadly, although it takes a lot of skill to sift through all patient history to get the nuggets.

Not a bad role for AI. Then again, you miss the chance to show empathy (this is me saying this as a radiologist who sees like 1 patient a day though so huge grain of salt)

“Physician burnout” from documentation was the excuse for AI adoption - Stop Citrix or VMware or whatever. make a responsive emr where you don’t have to click buttons like a monkey

No I heard parts of it. It actually making him affable. Harris was on call her daddy tho which she also was affable. I think Ezra Klein had an article on this - trumps authenticity is rare when most politicians have like a filter. Obama had like zero lag. Harris, Vance have some lag. I’m not saying the filter is necessarily needed or good, but I think it’s noticeable