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Are We Missing a Trick?

Technology shapes all our lives but sometimes it also gives rise
to a natural suspicion which holds back its use. Another
problem with new technology is we are bombarded with so
many new ideas we tend to freeze. Generally we like being
told how to use things which means those forms of
technology that develop over time are often ignored at first.
In 1878 when the District Telephone Company of New Haven
set up the worlds first public telephone network for just 21
subscribers, its likely none of them could see how the new
idea would develop. Now we have Social Media, Skype, and
24/7 access to far more information than we could ever
process, but are we making the best use of it all? Martha Lane
Foxs recent Dimbleby lecture provided an excellent
introduction to the issue, it also raised the concept of digital
inclusion as a public health intervention. I remember talking
to a mental health nurse a year ago who had a tough job
persuading commissioners that the best intervention for one
of his clients would be the provision of broadband. Many
studies have demonstrated the detrimental eects of social
isolation, while the forthcoming election will make us even
more aware of the need to take the pressure o the NHS.
Worryingly the statistics say that there are 10 million adults in
the UK excluded from the internet. Think about that for just
a moment and how you would cope. Government
departments have been pushing us towards on-line access for
a few years now in terms of eciency, surely now though its
time they put as much energy into closing the emerging
digital divide.

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