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Thats a horror story, but the actual horror is society picking not up on this until its too late for alot of lifes. This is one of the incidents, that a central
by qikInNdOutReply 4y ago
Thats a horror story, but the actual horror is society picking not up on this until its too late for alot of lifes. This is one of the incidents, that a centralized health system with data mining could have picked up easily.
- h0l0cube 4y agoBoth of those stories are from the 80s, when hard drives were the size of washing machines and an internet connection was an unlikely thing to have outside the military and larger scientific institutions (e.g., CERN).
- floxy 4y agoThe original IBM PC/XT had a 10 MB internal 5-1/4" hard drive in 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
- h0l0cube 4y agoI'm aware that small form factor hard drives existed at this time, they just didn't have the capacity for a medical database.