The quantified self - Gary Wolf
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At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can measure -- in gloriously geeky detail. Journalist Gary Wolf spends his days in pursuit of the most fascinating things. As a contributing editor at Wired, he's written about technology, mushroom hunters, venture capitalists
Wolf has developed a strong interest in the detailed self-tracking that people are doing, and he credits technology as one of the primary drivers of this phenomenon (for example, advances in human biometric sensors and improvements in data storage and processing). Outside of the technology, do you think there are cultural, psychological, or other factors that are contributing to the modern-day desire to track our lives in such detail?
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