Report on Ganj Dareh Meeting/will-be-heard participation (R=66%/W=28%):

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      Notable excerpts: Moderated Klatsch "Health Care, General Discussion"
     .real-time, full-video/visual interpretation=off debate, one of a series of debates held regularly on the state of healthcare in Ganj Dareh Direvnya
     +topic=Should We Pay Anshin for Personal Healthcare?
      +Yes by: Pa Ttonjim Stampamerinnam [Neighborhood Xref=Takarazuka]
      +No by: Ton Vingco Lukemiejim [Neighborhood Xref=Atairangikaahu]
     Ton Vingco: Right off, I want to say that I favor giving the anshin authority over community issues, health, safety, and justice. What I do oppose is their involvement in the way I run my life, how I care for myself and my family. I mean, who needs them? I can run the med-tek as well as they can — what skill does that take? And if I need nurturing from a Nurse, I can hire one. What else is there for them to do?
     Pa Ttonjim: Easy for you to say, standing here before us, all hale and hearty ... but what if you weren't? And you were all alone? And needed help? Are you going to pay for one of those doctor machines? I sure couldn't, and I know lots of us who couldn't.
     Ton Vingco: And you think Byukan-Hamil techniker have any more training than we do? Think they're any smarter than we are?
     Pa Ttonjim: Sheer repetition, variety of experience. They know when something's going right — and when it's going wrong. Granted, the doctor machines can learn. What's that called?
     Ton Vingco: Heuristic.
     Pa Ttonjim: And they can learn a lot, what with those nanites —
     Ton Vingco: Nano-technology, in this case, describes the situation better because med-tek is a combination of a controlling macro-mechanism that directs smaller, autonomous nano-mechanisms.
     Pa Ttonjim: And I'm sure they're networked, doctor machines talking with doctor machines, all over the planet.
     Ton Vingco: Yes, each med-tek employs a direct connection to the global lattice and participates in multiple meetings/database designed for them.
     Pa Ttonjim: But we've still got them beat as far as mental capacity goes. Right?
     Ton Vingco: People still seem to be smarter, though our basic compute power has been roughly equaled by the most powerful automata.
     Pa Ttonjim: Yet each one is as blind to its own faults as we are. After all, you walked all the way down to this town hall with lipstick on your teeth and your shirttail hanging out.
     Ton Vingco (frantically turning off-screen): What?
     Pa Ttonjim: Made you look! That's exactly my point. You didn't know you didn't have faux pas hanging all over you. How's a machine dumber than you are going to know when it's got something wrong with its logiciel or its infraware? Unless there's a human working those cases right alongside, keeping it honest?
     [Pa Ttonjim requests sense poll: 687,561 active in klatsch return 4.62 rating = strongly in his favor]