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It seems likely that the people who go online and post about their experiences with a particular drug or illness are not those who have had good experiences. It probably doesn't occur to people who g ...

- for researching the latest medical information
- for recording the data on a patient

What is the learning curve for doctors to do this? Would it improve care?

How is the ability to find information about doctors (and illnesses) changing the social landscape of american medicine?

There is a security issue when you start talking about health information about individuals being stored online. While it might help doctors understand your health history better, it could cause some ...

We lack the ability to see what other people can see about us, be it individuals, corporations, or governments. We need the ability to see what it is that others know about us. (Marc Smith)

One other issue:

how do you control how your information ends up in someone else's profile? For example: pictures, etc...

- how do you navigate a network that everyone else knows?

- loss of control of your network, who sees it? How do you control who knows what? Limited availability of tools for this.

- no longer ...

can you control the influence or prevalence of ubicomp in your own life?

opaque technologies that require stories to understand. There is often no visual representation available to truly understand a technology

physicality is missing - hitting the computer won't make ...

opaque technologies that require stories to understand. There is often no visual representation available to truly understand a technology

what happens to the people left behind (elderly, etc...)? This is something that happens not only in technology though, so is it really an issue?

People being alienated from their technology bec ...

Is the user being considered in the design of technology? Kind of. Performance is not the only aspect of humanity to consider though. What about privacy, social connectivity, happiness, physical ac ...

how do people customize their environments? How generalizable is each environment?

Skins... how we use technology is still tied to the body

how do people customize their environments? How generalizable is each environment?

how do you turn it off if it is everywhere?