On having a balance in technology adopting
Today I went to get my braces adjusted. This doctor did his residency 40 years ago and has been working orthodontics still. His office is a regular doctor's office, not too fancy, but there is something very 90's that I like.
This doctor has many organized bookshelfs with patients records in paper. He takes notes of the work he's doing with you by hand. You can only pay in cash or check and they give you a physical little notebook that you get there to write down each payment. The secretary is a young woman that writes everything by hand and then, i guess, at some point she types it to the computer. It is a very analog office that I like, where everything goes slow.
But one thing that amazed me when I first went there: They got a 3D scan of mouth in the computer, instead of the usual mold.
This gets me to think that we can strive for a balance in tech, what helps, what does not. Why should the doctor get a laptoo/tablet to write if pen and paper work just fine, why have a complicated patient record online only with all the bells and whistles of searhc and blah blah that will not work when something happens (no electricity, no internet). But then also, why using that mold again that's son uncomfortable, when the 3D scan is a much better tool.
You save your time and you are more efficient when the tools that need to be analog stay analog, and you update the technology only if it provides a lot more benefits that not doing it.