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Re: The Quantified Self your life in numbers

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RS Woods wrote on 2014-Feb-26:
> Apps like Reporter are part of a growing trend around "the quantified
> self" ...<snip>...
> People use self-tracking tools to share information on everything from
> the progression of Parkinson�s Disease to the relative health of an
> artificial heart valve through blood analysis to the fulfillment of a
> reading goal of five books a week.

Ordinarily, this idea of "the quantified self" wouldn't really interest
me. It wasn't until today, when I saw a reference to this idea in an
article about "Internet of Things", that I started to take it seriously.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/building-a-solid-world.html

�... The Internet of Things crossed our radar back in 2001... It was an
interesting idea: we wondered what would be possible if we could assign
an IP address to every physical object. Back then, we were skeptical:
who cares? Why would I want my shoes to have an IP address? That question
is still useful, but the answers we�re getting now are much different. In
2001, networked shoes sounded like gratuitous geekery, but in 2014, in the
context of the Quantified Self, network-enabled shoes that log your every
step make complete sense...�

Anyway, I'm not sure if there'a point to be made here; I'm still thinking
about it. However, I did find the juxtaposition of Quantified Self,
Internet of Things, and Big Data (mentioned in both articles) to be
quite interesting.

Regards,
Bill

-- 
I drive a '74 AMC Hornet in my dreams. Also, I really like cheese.
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The Quantified Self: your life in numbers RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-26 20:47 +0000
  Re: The Quantified Self  your life in numbers "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 14:33 -0600
    Re: The Quantified Self  your life in numbers RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 20:49 +0000

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