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| From | "wjwlsn" <ibillwilson@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: The Quantified Self your life in numbers |
| Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:33:08 -0600 |
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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. View this thread at http://squte.com/node/4783#comment-15465
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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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