Europe wants to be the 'AI continent,' but a French hospital still prints online forms
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-09-02
The author pokes fun at the gap between Europe's ambition to become the world's "AI continent" and its actual digital infrastructure: at a French hospital, he filled out a medical questionnaire online, only for staff to print it out so he could physically carry it to the next room. His prescription was likewise printed for him to bring back the next day — a first-hand anecdote highlighting how far behind European public institutions remain in digitalization.
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