Did you see the LinkedIn article titled, Is the Smartphone Era Ending? Just reading that headline made me think of diabetes technology and chuckle. I’d heard not too long ago that people are worried about the negative effects of screen time and are going back to flip phones.
Not sure if that’s true, but today I started imagining people going backward in diabetes technology and using blood glucose monitoring rather than CGM, then going back to finger sticks with strips and color charts, and finally back to urine monitoring.
And what about going back to the old insulin pumps and eventually back to multiple injections and then one injection a day?
I actually don’t care about going back to flip phones. My only concern with that is how hard it would be to text again (I remember pushing keys multiple times to get the right letter). But then again, maybe texting with our fingers will be over by then.
At any rate, we need top notch technology that we have access to and can count on in diabetes. Going backwards in diabetes management options is not only dumb, it’s dangerous. So instead let’s figure out how to get it in everyone’s hands.