Evolving the Doctor’s Waiting Room: Applying AI to Visioning the Future, a Cartographic Approach

SCAS (Socrates as a Service), incorporating ChatGPT 3.5, was instructed to create ten visions for the future waiting room of the doctor, based upon positioning the waiting room as part of the continuum of healthcare, rather than just a room housing people before they are admitted to see the medical professionals.SCAS 'fleshed out' each of the 10 visions in paragraph form, and then generated 15 questions about aspects of implementing these visions.In the subsequent iteration, SCAS was given the 15 questions it had previously created, and instructed to provide answers to each question, as well as estimate the difficulty involved in achieving what the answer specified.At the end of the process, about 15 minutes later, the program returns with a detailed Microsoft Excel file, the Idea Book, showing each iteration, and providing additional insights generated by the AI-based 'Summarizer.'The process presented here shows the power of AI to help create the future by allowing easy-to-create, quick-to-run queries, and providing detailed answers and additional subsequent analysis.With the turn-around time in seconds, and with a system which is iterative, the user can explore a topic in depth, generating a strong educational experience for any topic that one can imagine.The strength of the approach is the ability to help one think and envision in a way which is absorbing, user-driven, and often filled with surprises.