For over eight years I have been looking at the higher forms of digital technology regarding putting in place some form of 'add in' or set of 'apps' that could help myself and others to work this life\system in a better way.
What is described above is not some lightweight thought of the day but an actual off the shelf system that could have been doing a lot for many people certainly since 2005.
All of the technology needed for this kit has been researched in great depth (as far as I can - read below) Companies talked to, specialist discussions, lots of pdf files from company libraries (over 11,000 pdf's) and lots of listening to those who use the social services, mental health teams, doctors, banks, utility companies and any other parts of society that quite often dictate how you should use them and have their own forms of interaction which has to be adhered to - difficult for someone with a brain like mine - again see below.
I haven't talked with IBM Watson Research Centre yet about their possible inclusion into this but, as their main site for Watson has a 'GET in touch now' phone number emblazoned on the top and they are tuning Watson for medical helping at the moment seems to make it a likely possibility that if asked they could be reasonable.
I am a 54 year old man with Grand Mal Epilepsy and heart problems - I am also a user of cannabis (to stop shaking, amongst other reasons) and I smoke tobacco too - probably hence the heart problems.
I limit myself to the Carbamazapine and Epilim chrono that I take because too much makes my brain feel like it's in a vice! I have a two day grace period if I run out of Carbamazapine - any longer and I am likely to throw a major fit. One of my heart medicines is a beta blocker and it seems to have had a profound effect on my ability to wake up happy. I had a heart attack in 2003 and was put on 'my tablets'. Having suffered from serious clinical depression since 1991 by June / July of 2004 I started feeling so much more positive and have ended up a remarkably happy person.
I have a MENSA tested IQ in the top 2% of the UK, 146 on the Cattell Scale and, on the majority of my scores on the Weschler Adult Intelligence Test I are around 128 to 132 - apart from one which was so far the other way that I was in the bottom few percent with a score of this nature.
Since the break up of my first marriage in 1982 (4?) I have spent most of my time trying to work out some better sort of system for helping people cope with ,and sort out, the problems they have which hinder their growth towards being 'happier' human beings. I married a second time and had three wonderful children but, because I was a badly screwed up person I wrecked that marriage too. Luckily my ex family loved me enough to be patient and we got over the damage that I did.
I lose memories when I throw fits. Large chunks of memories. The last big fits I threw lost me three years worth of memories. not only do I lose memories but my mind cross wires my memories so in effect I have actual memories that don't exist in reality. Made up actuals that are not actual. Very confusing for those around me and very confusing for me.
The two times that I have written computer programs that work I have something like an epiphany of what life could be (money, success and choice, etc) and have thrown fits.
I very rarely prioritise my next moves in the right order. I don't use my technology for keeping myself organised because my brain can't cope with all the fiddling about needed just to feed in the details at the time I should be feeding them in. (I have 'millions' of scraps of paper scattered all around with odd numbers and names on them - many of which I don't have a clue about!)
I can't change my head from what it is to a head that works things in the way it's needed to get this up and running myself. Any attempt to do so brings on fits. Which also means that all the specialised documents needed from me to make the next move happen never get written.
I live a very quiet life and rarely go out and socialise. I live on state benefits and don't work 'on the side' for money to add to the kitty - my head can't cope with the mind games needed to do that. I don't have credit because I have a rubbish credit score. (I have just got myself a bank account after many years of not having one (they wouldn't give me one) but I haven't put any money in it because I know I will screw up somewhere along the line and I then will be where I always have been - in debt to a huge bank who won't care that I can't afford what they want from me)
I don't have a smart phone because you have to have a running bank account to get one on contract, or a lump sum to buy a Pay as You Go phone.
My head is packed full of details to do with this project but I am starting to find it harder to pull words, names, terms, etc. from my head.
As to costings. When I last looked at this, based on large scale uptake, it was possible to have this as part of your phone/internet package for little more than that package cost at the time - around £20 per month. Because it was a new set of tools there was great scope for hiking up the price if this was added, thereby slowing down the uptake of use for those in real need of such a set of tools.
I tried to work out a system where the well off paid more for their use and the poorer people paid less - there are so many possible uses for this kit that it should be easily possible to sell many of the uses at a premium in order to finance the charitable/pro bono side of it.