Environments

In this chapter, I analyze the impact of MAI on environments, i.e. spaces that we work, live, and act in. My basic assumption is that MAI will transform the material (technical infrastructure and hardware) and immaterial aspects (networks of practices and relationships, behaviors and rules) of these spaces. The background for my analysis the concept of the learning healthcare system (LHS) that makes meaningful use of health data and links the individual to the public health sphere. The LHS approach with its ubiquitous and permanent data collection, exchange, and processing will substantially transform three types of environments, work environments, personal environments, and urban environments. This chapter in many ways has the character of an outlook, since some concepts I discuss, such as smart cities, have not been realized yet.