Us quantified
Greg Beato looks at the natural result of Facebook, Twitter, tumblr , blogging and self monitoring:
"In 2008, Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly and Wired contributing editor Gary Wolf noticed this trend toward self-tracking and created a website called The Quantified Self to document it. The site has since spawned meet-up groups in 23 cities around the world where individuals convene to talk about what sort of data they’re amassing on themselves, and—one imagines—to take copious notes.
To some degree, we all self-track. We step on a scale, we jot diary entries in Moleskines, we may even keep fairly comprehensive logs of the miles we cycle or run and the calories we burn in the process. But just as channel-surfing grew infinitely easier in the wake of the remote control, but then infinitely more compelling as the number of channels exploded, so goes self-tracking. The $149 Zeo Sleep Coach monitors your brain’s electrical waves while you snooze and quantifies how long you spent in the various levels of sleep. The $99 Fitbit tracks the number of steps you take each day, estimates the calories you burn, and automatically uploads this information to your computer when you get near it."
I gotta go get a picture of lunch right now.
"In 2008, Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly and Wired contributing editor Gary Wolf noticed this trend toward self-tracking and created a website called The Quantified Self to document it. The site has since spawned meet-up groups in 23 cities around the world where individuals convene to talk about what sort of data they’re amassing on themselves, and—one imagines—to take copious notes.
To some degree, we all self-track. We step on a scale, we jot diary entries in Moleskines, we may even keep fairly comprehensive logs of the miles we cycle or run and the calories we burn in the process. But just as channel-surfing grew infinitely easier in the wake of the remote control, but then infinitely more compelling as the number of channels exploded, so goes self-tracking. The $149 Zeo Sleep Coach monitors your brain’s electrical waves while you snooze and quantifies how long you spent in the various levels of sleep. The $99 Fitbit tracks the number of steps you take each day, estimates the calories you burn, and automatically uploads this information to your computer when you get near it."
I gotta go get a picture of lunch right now.
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