COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Wed Mar 18 15:15:00 UTC 2020

On 17/Mar/20 20:33, Emille Blanc wrote:

> In a world where you can license device performance by the megabit/sec/day, or even have to purchase per-use factory reset keys since the manufacture has stripped product owners of that right too, this doesn't totally surprise me.
>
> There would have to be a flip side to that coin - I would have to guess (read: guess) it's a 'n' x-rays/day to "cut costs to the end user." Great practice on paper for little guys, but beyond that...

In the industrial era, it was "knowledge & expertise". In the digital
era, it's "curiosity and creativity".

Access to information is ubiquitous and exponential. Knowledge has been
commoditized. How does that hurt the medical industry, you wonder? Well,
a webachondriac will use the Internet to easily self-diagnose, use an
app to order medication online, and have it delivered, all without ever
leaving his/her house.

How many businesses have lost out on his dime in that process? The local
GP down the corner. The local pharmacy up the corner. And all the supply
chain in between.

If traditional businesses don't adapt, they will become irrelevant.

Cutting costs (as the hospitals and, pretty much, any industry is doing)
is the first path to staving off the death spiral. And then the massacre
follows.

Mark.