Pre digital - Seth Godin
Seth Godin visits an emergency room and is staggered by how analog it is: people taking notes on paper, the lack of access to patient’s history, and six people acting as front men to the doctor: 90 minutes to see a doctor for 90 seconds.
But it’s the tip of the iceberg:
School is pre-digital. Elections. Most of what you do in your job. Even shopping. The vestiges of a reliance on geography, lack of information, poor interpersonal connections and group connection (all hallmarks of the pre-digital age) are everywhere.
Perhaps the most critical thing you can say of a typical institution: “That place is pre-digital.”
All a way of saying that this is just the beginning, the very beginning, of the transformation of our lives.
And, of course, it is not just our lives as consumers, students, and patients, but as community members, citizens, and residents of our cities. Everything is changing, and all at once.
Stephanie Booth is a freelance internet geek who lives in Lausanne, Switzerland. Digital Crumble is where she dumps all sorts of interesting stuff she finds online.
