What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Digital Twin
Patient onboarding guide to digital twin care frameworks
This patient education guide marked one of the earliest large-scale efforts to prepare individuals for a future of continuous, data-driven healthcare. It introduced the concept of a personal digital twin—an ever-evolving computational model of the body used to guide diagnostics, treatment and prevention.
The text offered reassurance, step-by-step instructions, and normative framing for a radically new relationship to health. It helped normalize questions like: Who has access to my twin? Can it outlive me? How does it stay up-to-date throughout my life?
The guide became a cultural mirror—reflecting both excitement and anxiety about the blurring of biology and simulation, autonomy and oversight.
Circa
2037
Archive ID
HX-37 / TXT-DT-01
Curator's Note
For many, this book was their first introduction to predictive care—and to the idea that their most intimate decisions might soon be made in collaboration with an algorithm that knew them better than they did.
