Maybe not peak tech, but peak level of threshold for many. Many things these days are just gimmicks that offer no real use or value over what you already have. Most products are very heavily promoted and hyped as being the next best thing, but it really is mostly marketing bs.
Peak tech
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AI is already out diagnosing doctors, they should start implementing it slowly, i doubt most people would be comfortable, but I would have no issues using such technology. NHS is just screwed no funding to implement changes to bring about lower costs and better outcomes in the long term. I still think nhs should move to pre-emptive treatment with any new borns as well as analysing and storing dna in a few years time when it becomes cheaper enough. just doing 23andme i have found some drugs im at high risk of complications with. imagine what it would be like on a national scale let alone the data mining that could be done to improve treatment outcomes.
also ordering you own blood tests is growing rapidly, even in UK with our national health care.
Well I guess in lots of cases as a patient you wouldn't be aware of some of it. I mean say a radiologist used a new system to partially automate the diagnosis the person going for the scan doesn't necessarily know that there is a computer highlighting stuff rather than just displaying the results. They just go into the room and get scanned as usual. There are potential regulatory hurdles, especially re: deep neural nets in that you can't necessarily give an explanation of why a decision was made.
Likewise I had a holder monitor once, it isn't feasible for a human to review the whole recording from each monitor that geta handed back at the hospital so they'll make use of software to do so, though I think they do still manually review any areas of the recording where the patient has pressed a button to indicate some event. In that case it was presumably rather more traditional signal processing software.
The place where I work is still using PCs from the late 1990s. They have been upgraded once, to add more memory. In this case, it's not the company's fetish with cutting costs regardless of the cost. It's a rational decision - those PCs are powerful enough to do the required work and replacing them with modern kit wouldn't be any improvement.
I don't think we're anywhere near peak tech, but in some situations we've reached peak usefulness in tech. The OP mentioned phones (which aren't phones any more) and I think that's a good example. For everyone I know, the limiting factor in their desired use of their phone is battery life. Everything else is more than good enough for what they want, so any improvements would be irrelevant. I also think that in many cases it's a temporary peak that will probably at some point be removed by further advances in technology. Imagine, for example, a "phone" (i.e. pocket computer with a phone app) that was also a fully fledged games console that ran the same games at the same performance as a modern console, had a battery life of days while doing so, wireless connection to controllers and TVs so you could easily dock it and use it as a games console, a projection display so you could have a large "screen" anywhere you had a flat surface and user input via gestures or a game controller that folded into something small enough to slip into a pocket. That would be useful enough to enough people to move peak usefulness in phones.
I don't think we're anywhere near peak tech, but in some situations we've reached peak usefulness in tech. The OP mentioned phones (which aren't phones any more) and I think that's a good example. For everyone I know, the limiting factor in their desired use of their phone is battery life. Everything else is more than good enough for what they want, so any improvements would be irrelevant. I also think that in many cases it's a temporary peak that will probably at some point be removed by further advances in technology. Imagine, for example, a "phone" (i.e. pocket computer with a phone app) that was also a fully fledged games console that ran the same games at the same performance as a modern console, had a battery life of days while doing so, wireless connection to controllers and TVs so you could easily dock it and use it as a games console, a projection display so you could have a large "screen" anywhere you had a flat surface and user input via gestures or a game controller that folded into something small enough to slip into a pocket. That would be useful enough to enough people to move peak usefulness in phones.
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Tech peaked in 1981 with the BBC Micro 
It was downhill after that, and social media is tech's death warrant.
It was downhill after that, and social media is tech's death warrant.