The danger with fast talkin’, shiny-object-lovin’ early adoptin’ doctors is that they/we hijack the social conversation and fuel the hype cycle.

“We have inflated expectations when a novel technology is first introduced, followed by short-term disappointment when it doesn’t live up to the hype. But this is the important part: we also consistently fail to recognize the post-hype, massively transformative nature of exponential technologies—meaning that we literally have a blind spot for the technological possibilities underlying our vision of abundance.”

–Peter Diamandis, Abundance.

Case-in-point: Highlight was pushed two years ago at SXSW and it hasn’t had the trajectory that I may have lead you to believe.  But this concept of personal geocontext has healthcare potential that shouldn’t be dismissed.  It just needs to be applied in the right way.

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