Interesting Enemies For a Diagnostic Database 409
dlh writes: "Boston.com is carrying an article about Dr. Lawrence L. Weed's Problem Knowledge Coupler software. Apparently the medical profession is not exactly thrilled at the idea." Seems access to information is a positive thing, but certain doctors seem to feel threatened by this sort of database.
Too bad for MD's. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Too bad for *all* geeks (Score:3, Funny)
In a recent slashdot forum on an AI topic, I concluded that it is easier to automate "rational" things than it is irrational [1] things, like marketing and PHB's.
Thus, techies will probably be automated out of a job before PHB's and sales. (That is if H1B's don't do it first.)
Geeks are Doomed! Eat, drink, and skydive from space, for tomarrow you are unlayable gutter meat.
[1] I don't know whether they are irrational, or just very hard or impossible to ascertain the rules for.
Not true (Score:1, Funny)
Most visits easy to automate (Score:5, Funny)
1. Get swabs of patient mouth and ass
2. Perscribe patient antibiotics and
Codene.
3. Politely send patient away
4. Send swabs to lab
5. Play golf
Re:A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing (Score:2, Funny)
I guess what I'm saying is that people can be stupid once, but after a while, they'll either learn, or they'll go nuts. Then when the computer tells them that they've gnoe nuts, they'll learn to ignore the computer, who is, after all, just out to get them.