Technology that helps you to monitor yourself
Melanie Howard
Communicating with ourselves is now as important as communicating with other people. Melanie Howard describes a trend called The Quantified Self
Some Technologiesare so transformative that they continue to facilitate profound social change over decades. Miniaturised, interactive mobile technology – largely through the Trojan horse of the smartphone – is providing the means for a radically different set of behaviours. All such trends arise from a happy coincidence of human needs and technology enablers. The spread of information (accurate or not) about the possible effects of decisions we...