Post by account_disabled on Feb 15, 2024 12:54:13 GMT 2
MENU LOOK FOR OPINION JANUARY Mental health in the hands of technological capitalismNick Couldry Tech giants like Amazon Meta Apple and Alphabet are increasingly developing apps and services that offer mental health treatments. The value of these products to users is dubious but they promise lucrative new sources of highly personal data to companies. pMental health in the hands of technological capitalismp Getting philosophical in a interview Apple CEO Tim Cook posed the question of what will ultimately be Apples ultimate contribution to humanity.
He responded concisely that this contribution will be in the field Philippines Email List health . Since then Cooks promise has manifested itself in several innovative Apple products that claim to democratize healthcare and empower people to manage their health. Recent years have also seen other attempts to disrupt the healthcare market by tech giants Amazon Meta and Alphabet.
More recently it was even announced that the famous surveillance company Palantir won a million contract to create a new data platform for the British National Health Service NHS. Covid accelerated this trend as the pandemic left in its wake several subsidiaries research networks online health services clinics and other companies that were trying to redesign the future of health in the words of Verily a subsidiary of Alphabet with smart watches and other digital tools. However the forays into the health sector by the largest technology companies in the West are no longer focused solely on the body.