Professor of Pathology
Director NKF cyberNephrology
Director, Experimental Pathology
In the interim before this blog was fully functioning I have been contributing pieces to the ThinkerNet Blog. The titles so far start with: The Emerging Digital Intelligence, see others listed in right side bar of that page.
My latest essay on ThinkerNet Blog is entitled Expanding Time in the Digital Age . It has generated very interesting discussion which you can see below the main piece. The other essays and their discussion are linked on right sidebar. When there are more than four essays there they will not all fit on one page like that. At that point I will begin to reproduce the oldest ones here.
File under: Musings - Dr. Kim Solez @ 10:40 pmMy latest essay on ThinkerNet Blog is entitled Virtual Flying Doctors . It has generated very interesting discussion which you can see below the main piece. The other four essays and their discussion are linked on right sidebar. I am working on another assay on Google Health right now.
File under: Musings - Dr. Kim Solez @ 12:53 pmMy latest essay on ThinkerNet Blog is entitled Google Health Needs Security Rx and has comments below on lessening risks in health and computing, the analogy between human health and computer health. Hope you like it!
File under: Musings - Dr. Kim Solez @ 7:41 pmMy latest essay on ThinkerNet Blog is entitled Reflections on iPhone's Internet Happening . What went wrong, what went right, and what the future may hold. Hope you enjoy it!
File under: Musings - Dr. Kim Solez @ 3:36 amWhen I first agreed to direct the Leonard Cohen International Festival I never imagined it would be so much fun, or that the press coverage would be so wonderful, not just reaching the Edmonton Journal culture section, but also front page and editorial page. The multitasking to keep all the balls juggling in the air as I prepared for the event with all the other great people helping me was stimulating and enjoyable, I even wrote a poem about it.
The friendships with the wonderful artists who performed was maybe the best part. My friends in music internationally now number approximately the same as my friends in medicine, all great people and so much fun to interact with! The fourteen hundred people we attracted to the Winspear Concert Hall on Saturday night for our Gala Concert is five or six times the number of people who attend the consensus generating meetings I run every two years in medicine. Different configurations, different aims, but both types of gatherings are important, each accomplishes something unique and significant.
So what now? Well on the Leonard Cohen side the next International Event is in Krakow, Poland in the summer of 2010. And what do I have to do for that? Absolutely nothing, I just need to show up and enjoy.
On the medical side our planning for the next Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology in August 2009 is well in place, the program is set and we have begun to invite speakers and sponsors. Already thinking way ahead there, the 2011 Allograft Pathology meeting will be in Paris, 2013 will be in Brazil (Rio? Manaus?) and 2015 in Sweden. The meeting will not be back in Banff, Canada until 2017.
Increasingly it looks like standard setting in medicine of the type we do in these meetings will be even more important in the future than it is today. Interest is growing, more people want to take part.
Quite the opposite of most people, now that our big July event is over I am not going anywhere, or doing anything special in August and September. Just staying here in Edmonton immersing myself in the medical work routine during the days which is nice to be able to focus on again, and in the evenings enjoying the local cultural scene where others perform and organize and I can just sit there and soak it in!
Have a great rest of the summer!
Best regards. - Kim
File under: Musings - Dr. Kim Solez @ 3:02 amMy latest essay on ThinkerNet blog is entitled Keeping Hot Access Gear Cool, all about the problem of heat generation by devices and what the future holds. Thoughts befitting end-of-summer hot bright August days!
Hope you enjoy it!
All the best. - Kim
Cave men were capable of using the Internet; it just hadn't been invented yet! This piece on ThinkerNet Blog is designed to combat the gloom and doom that has been quite prevalent in the news of the past week or so. Hope it does that for you! All the best. - Kim
Internet Evolution - Kim Solez, MD - The Internet Could Thrive in a World Without Money Source: www.internetevolution.com As mankind evolves away from the use of currency, problems like spam could disappear. All the best. - Kim
You can read the complete blog entry here.
Links to other recent essays by Dr. Solez are on the right sidebar of the same page.
The Man Who Wrote Too Quickly (by Kim Solez)
A woman who had the problem bad
Told me of the difficulties with being too beautiful.
People did not take your mind seriously.
Wanted to reward you for just showing up.
Discouraged accomplishment,
As that would break the mood and
Is for you completely unnecessary.
A man who had the problem bad
Told me of the difficulties with finding words too easily.
People did not take your mind seriously.
Want you to slow down, and struggle more.
Discouraged the writing of several poems in a day
As that would break the mood and
Is for you completely unnecessary.
A poem that had the problem bad
Told me of the difficulties of being written too quickly
By a man who found words too easily and a too beautiful woman.
No one who heard it could recall it later.
And no one wrote anything down
As that would break the mood and
Is for you completely unnecessary.