Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
My GPS watch insists on tracking my running streak, my hitting-my-step-count streak, my drinking-enough-water streak. A friend mentions their Duolingo streak. An app offers to track my meditation streak, which seems to fly in the face of mindfulness. As I type this, I’m shown an ad for something called “Streaks,” billed as “the to-do list that help... See more
The Big Break
Today, smart watches track our movements and heart rates to give us a vague sense of health. What if we could collect more of this data and build and maintain digital models of ourselves that help us make better choices throughout the day?
Daniela Rus • The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
This month’s Frame: Using Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological approach to heal from digital fatigue
Framesstripepartners.substack.com
Not surprisingly, Rosa rightly notes that “technologies and processes associated with digitalization have fundamentally transformed our lives by making nearly the entire world, as it is represented in our consciousness, accessible and controllable in historically unprecedented ways.” Digital technology has especially abetted the parameterization of... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Paradox of Control
