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In the 1980s they would look it up in a book like the the MSD - would work today, too.
by RandomLensman 3y ago
In the 1980s they would look it up in a book like the the MSD - would work today, too.
- andy_ppp 3y agoIs this as good as searching Google? The point is the internet has improved medicine as well.
- RandomLensman 3y agoHow much has it improved? Where has it improved? If the internet were not there, would that improvement not have happened? Modern medicine definitely existed well before the internet, so the internet wasn't necessary for that to exist.
- andy_ppp 3y agoJust look at how treatment during a pandemic was communicated and evolved in realtime, the whole way we do science today interacts with learning from many people in a much faster and more efficient way. Luckily these sort of nonsense one or the other positions don’t work in the real world. Clearly it would be much easier to recreate modern medicine with the Internet available than it would be to recreate the Internet if we just had medicine.
- RandomLensman 3y agoFaster, yes, more efficient - not sure and very difficult to measure. We also got a lot more diversity and resistance to measures. I find the view that recreating modern medicine being clearly easy with the internet dubious. Even more, we did create the internet while having medicine before, not the other way around. Without modern medicine we might not have any internet to start with as the struggle with human diseases and illness might have led to very different time attribution of efforts. Also, the quote is for all of medicine, not just modern.
- verinus 3y agosure, but to such a fundamental amount? or was it IT- the internet is not IT, super computers and simulations, databases and so are not the internet... I like google but google is only as good as the stuff out there, and then finding useful content (that is not popular) is hard, and getting even harder the more content is produced. greed in the form of ads also don't help much...
- andy_ppp 3y agoWhy do you think computers have progressed so quickly? It’s not because of simulations.
- epcoa 3y agoAll of the resources needed for day to day medicine will fit on a small thumb drive (so any phone) and can be update with just a few hundred megabytes per month (including media). It’s nice the internet makes things easier to get to, but it’s not nearly as critical as implied.