My experiences about digitalisation
When I was born in 1976, there were no electronics in the world. I remember when the first TV-videogameconsole came out in my childhood. First video games had only simple black and white graphics. In the 1980s electronic games like Mario and Donkey Kong were my favourites and I was quite a good playing these. Ah, I still can remember that feeling while playing these.
I also remember, when we got Commodore 64 and Amiga. It was so much fun to play Sonic and other games on C64 with my brothers. After the Commodore 64 and Amiga hit the market, the development of information technology began to move forward. First computers performance increased and then applications. Internet, oh my gard, how long it took a time to get a connection. Internet was a big step to the world. After computers, mobile phones came into the world and I have also been able to go through mobilephone development from the beginning. My first mobilephone was white Nokia which I got as a christmaspresent from my boyfriend. That was so cool! That Nokia mobilephone was same kind of like a Doro nowadays, couldn’t say that was cool anymore.
I graduated five years ago as a registered nurse and lot of things has happened after that. Corona pandemic, war in Ukraine etc. and these has unfortinately been part of my job in icu. There has always been a lot of technology in icu, but development is happening all the time. New respirators are smaller and easier to use. Development happens all the time in softwares and hospitals have reduced paper-based communication. Researched healthcare information is easy to find and you can also expand your knowledge by online books.
How the digitalization will change life and work in the future?
I think that in future we have more applications to get infromation about patient health, something like smartwatch or my be somekind of chip under the skin. We get information from there direct to health care patient information system. Maybe we don´t have to remember so much information and we have robots which tell us what to do. Or then we tell to robot what we want it to do.
Risks of open digital society -positive and negative effects
My worst case scenary is that somebody takes my indentity. Somebody in Singapore takes passport with my identity or use my personal id in bank or healthcare. I have lot of information about me in social media, but I make desicions what I tell and who I want to tell it. If somebody figures out my creditcard number and passwords, would it be awfull. Positive is that open digital society gives us lot of information and posibilities. It´s so easy to figure out medical researches from all over the world.
The General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679, “GDPR”) is very important law in the EU. It gives data protection and makes me feel little bit better about my privacy. I can always ask my personal data from companies and make my own desicion what I want to tell them.
My own thoughts about learning:
I´m very proud of my new blog, because It was my first blog ever. I was worried about do I have anything to say when I saw word “digi society”, but I was wrong. Videos were very intresting and I did my best telling you about my experiences.
BLOGS I COMMENTED:
Hi Sirpa,
it was great to read from your blog about Digi Society and your experiences and views about it. You have seen and experienced the digital development and change. I also remember the time when my older sisters got their first Nokia cell phones, they were so nice and funny at the time.
I also work at the healthcare industry, and have seen how good and helping thing the digitization can be. It makes many processes easier and faster for the patients and for the workers than they used to be, if they work. And as you say, a lot of necessary information from reliable healthcare sources can also easily be found online without having to browse paper books. I also think as you say, that surely one day we will have more and more helpful applications and tools to help our work and make it more versatile and hope that they are utilized as much as possible and been received by an open-minded way by the staff. Let’s see what the future will bring us!
I enjoyed reading your thoughts and memories about digitalization. Reading your text raised my own memories from the 90’s, when we bought our NES-console with my sister. We must have been around 10-12 years old. We spent all our savings on the console. My sister still has got it, and her chilren are learnig to play with it.
With NES-games you couldn’t save a game like you can with the consoles nowadays. You had to play the game through. I remember my thumbs aching after playing hours of Super Mario. I think people weren’t that worried about screen time back then. Did we even have the consept on screen time in the 90’s? However, I would not let my own children play as much console games as I did 😉
Hellou Sirpa
It was nice to read your log and notice similarities in the lives of us children of the 1970s. There was no talk of digitization. I also played an electronic game and that’s where the digital was :). You have brothers and have been introduced to Commodore. I have also missed this miracle device. You stated that in modern times, digitalization also makes it easier, for example, to search for information at work. That’s how it really is!