A few months ago, I went to a dentist in Palo Alto for the first time...by far the most hi-tech dentist office I've been in...though it's been awhile for me. I guess I was most impressed with the digital x-ray machine, in which they could snap shots, and we'd see them pop up right away in front of the flatscreen in front of me.

However, the experience was marred when I went upstairs from the xray room to the dentist's operating room. He couldn't find the digital files. The reason was, he told me, because over the past few days, the office was finally upgrading its system from Windows XP...to Windows 7. I wish I had taken notes overhearing him talk to the assistant and the totally random sounding hacks and procedures they had for just getting through the computer system, I'm surprised I didn't hear "Turn off the computer, wait at least 30 seconds, then turn it back on"...suffice to say, the mystery of the missing digital files was never really solved and took up about half an hour of the appointment time.

I'm surprised a Palantir-for-Doctors hasn't yet come up...a company that maybe doesn't build anything revolutionary but makes billions from an audience with a lot of money and very low standards.