Topic: Social media 'could transform public services'

[Simon]

Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.

Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8382252.stm

[Rik]

He's not wrong. These days, we have a voice on a scale unprecedented in history. Of course, that doesn't mean we are more listened to.

[Simon]

And even if listened to, we are often not heard. 

[sam]

argh, I hate our reliance on computers... soon, if not already,  you will be a lower class citizen without a computer and a broadband connection. Stupid really.

[Simon]

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

[sam]

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

 

[Simon]

Well, you can't send a kid to school without one. 

[sam]

Well, you can't send a kid to school without one. 

without having a child? yeah, otherwise that's kidnapping.

[Simon]

[Rik]

It's getting to a point where a computer is an essential, rather than a luxury.

TBH, I think it's already got there.

[Simon]

Yes, that's probably true.