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.
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.
These days it’s healthcare administrators, much more than doctors, who decide what is to be done in healthcare.
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