Vinod Khosla – Still Stirring Things Up

Vinod Khosla (Wikipedia) Vinod Khosla’s still at it. This time its the Stanford Big Data in Biomedicine Conference.  I don’t really blame him – he’s got quite a thing going on the speaker circuit.  As long as he keeps getting invited to give keynote addresses at healthcare summits, he’ll keep cranking through his slide set and stirring up the hornet’s nest by saying that 80% of docs will be replaced by digital devices. Which coincidentally, his venture capital firm finances. Except now he’s calling it big data, since that’s what the most recent summit he spoke at was about. (Like any paid speaker with a slide set, he’s good at mixing it up for his audience.) Here’s the response I wrote when Khosla started his act a few years ago. Since he’s still saying the same old thing, I didn’t see much need to rewrite it. (Although like any writer given the chance, I did edit it a tad.) Will Doctors Be Needed in the Future? There’s a big discussion going on in the health tech community about a controversial keynote speech given by Vinod Khosla at the Health Innovation Summit (HIS), in which he stated that 80% of what doctors do could be replaced by machines. If you’re a doc like me who has no idea who the heck Vinod Khosisa is (he’s a venture capitalist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems), why he’d be a keynote speaker at a healthcare event, well, that’s the point of this post. You see, there are...
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