Trend Longevity Rating
matured and remains highly relevant, even where the details changed
How this trend held up
Patient access to health data expanded significantly beyond what the book describes, reinforced by the 21st Century Cures Act's 2016 information-blocking rules and near-universal adoption of patient portals like MyChart. ZocDoc, one of the book's featured examples, remains a leading appointment-booking platform. But GoFundMe, presented here as a hopeful example of people "hacking" around high medical costs, is viewed far more critically today: medical crowdfunding has grown into a multibillion-dollar shadow safety net, now widely discussed by researchers and journalists as a symptom of health-system failure rather than an innovation to celebrate. Access to data and self-advocacy grew as predicted; the funding workaround the book cited approvingly has aged into a warning sign.
Every past trend prediction is re-reviewed and graded with a Trend Longevity Rating, measuring how much each originally curated trend still matters years later.
