The device, manufactured by California company Eko Health, is about the size of a playing card. It is placed on a patient’s chest to take an ECG recording of the electrical signals from their heart, while its microphone records the sound of blood flowing through the heart.
The people selling it know hospitals want “ai” so they don’t have to pay doctors.
So slap “ai” on it, pretend it’s a new version of old tech, and then journalists write shit headlines and people post it when they’d never talk about a legit medical breakthrough.
This is boring, but actually pretty useful. That’s just not how you sell products in a capitalist dystopia…
So we kind of come full circle. Hell, just the fact that we have to advertise medical advancements is pretty cyberpunk if you think about it. We’re just used to it, which is why our dystopia is boring
Yeah, it’s not even a “stethoscope”…
The people selling it know hospitals want “ai” so they don’t have to pay doctors.
So slap “ai” on it, pretend it’s a new version of old tech, and then journalists write shit headlines and people post it when they’d never talk about a legit medical breakthrough.
This is boring, but actually pretty useful. That’s just not how you sell products in a capitalist dystopia…
So we kind of come full circle. Hell, just the fact that we have to advertise medical advancements is pretty cyberpunk if you think about it. We’re just used to it, which is why our dystopia is boring