The Quantified Self
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Can the self actually be quantified? This hour, we examine the growth of personal data collection. From Bites to Bytes - Quantifying the Everyday; Does Data Give Life Meaning?; The Sonified Self - Transforming Data Into Music; Our Automated Future; Chronicling, then Letting Go.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for WPR comes from St. Luke's Burthing Center, providing expectant mom's low intervention options, with labor tubs, remote telemetry, and nitrous oxide. |
| 0:10.2 | More information is at slh Duluth.com slash baby. |
| 0:19.3 | It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:21.4 | Today, the quantified self. |
| 0:23.6 | If you haven't heard, there's a new watch out. |
| 0:26.4 | And according to Tim Cook, it'll change your life. |
| 0:31.4 | Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. |
| 0:36.9 | A comprehensive health and fitness device. |
| 0:41.3 | And Apple Watch gives us the ability to motivate people to be more active and more healthy. |
| 0:48.3 | Apple Watch helps you live a better day. |
| 0:52.3 | But does it? I mean, how much do you really want to know about yourself? |
| 0:58.0 | Because Apple Watch is just the beginning. |
| 1:00.0 | Call it life logging, self-tracking, health and fitness monitoring. |
| 1:05.0 | The market for personal technology is exploding. |
| 1:08.0 | There are apps and gadgets to track just about every mundane, tiny little thing you do. |
| 1:13.6 | There are apps that track how much water we drink. There are some devices that will help you to breathe more deeply. |
| 1:21.6 | There's also the idle alert. It vibrates when you have been sitting for 20 minutes. And kind of reminds you that you might want to stretch or move your legs. |
| 1:32.4 | I'm Anne Strain Shams, and this is Natasha Dauschul. |
| 1:35.0 | For the past few years, she has wandered the aisles at the gigantic annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. |
| 1:41.6 | She's a cultural anthropologist at MIT, and what she's noticing is the |
| 1:45.7 | emergence of something new, the quantified self, along with some pretty bizarre new inventions. |
| 1:52.5 | It's called the Pavlock, which is a play on Pavlov, obviously, and it's a wristband linked to |
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