Most digital geeks will have heard the term - "Quantified Self".
Currently the consumer applications of this - have manifested themselves into "pseudo health" tech - like Nike +, like Fitbit, like JawBone etc.. Basically Internet of Things .. things.. that take crude sensor reading - like a pedometer - and upload the data to the internet - so you can track your fitness, your progress and your health.
However, we all know, that in the new Hour Glass economy - we all have to compete to get to the top .... as the middle class is disappearing .. and the bottom of the Hour Glass is a dreadful dispirited place.
To compete, we will need, digital helpers/assistants - powerful machines helping us with our decisions - all our decisions - quietly in the background.
To start - they will analyze our digital and financial history - our health stats - our location - our travel - our relationships - and try initially to find patterns - to make sense. It is likely the computer - will also askt - survey like questions - where it needs specific data.
From there - it would start - just by offering up basic info-graphics - which could be broadcast - to a device such as Google Glass. Non-threatening - but useful snippets of information.
That would be stage one.
The next stage - would be - the "Optimized Self" - the device offering tips - to make you more efficient. However, this would be no - dumb device. If the computer suggested - you need to take more walks - and your didn't - it wouldn't repeatedly offer this advice. It would adapt. It would find other ways to optimize.
The Personal Super Computers - will initially be very expensive - and will be bandwidth hungry. Like glass - the computer - will see and hear - what you do. They will require expensive - data plans to run.
For the super rich - it is likely they will not connect - but their staff will - their helpers.
Those without - access to this computing power - will in the future be relegated to the bottom of the hour glass.
Currently the consumer applications of this - have manifested themselves into "pseudo health" tech - like Nike +, like Fitbit, like JawBone etc.. Basically Internet of Things .. things.. that take crude sensor reading - like a pedometer - and upload the data to the internet - so you can track your fitness, your progress and your health.
However, we all know, that in the new Hour Glass economy - we all have to compete to get to the top .... as the middle class is disappearing .. and the bottom of the Hour Glass is a dreadful dispirited place.
To compete, we will need, digital helpers/assistants - powerful machines helping us with our decisions - all our decisions - quietly in the background.
To start - they will analyze our digital and financial history - our health stats - our location - our travel - our relationships - and try initially to find patterns - to make sense. It is likely the computer - will also askt - survey like questions - where it needs specific data.
From there - it would start - just by offering up basic info-graphics - which could be broadcast - to a device such as Google Glass. Non-threatening - but useful snippets of information.
That would be stage one.
The next stage - would be - the "Optimized Self" - the device offering tips - to make you more efficient. However, this would be no - dumb device. If the computer suggested - you need to take more walks - and your didn't - it wouldn't repeatedly offer this advice. It would adapt. It would find other ways to optimize.
The Personal Super Computers - will initially be very expensive - and will be bandwidth hungry. Like glass - the computer - will see and hear - what you do. They will require expensive - data plans to run.
For the super rich - it is likely they will not connect - but their staff will - their helpers.
Those without - access to this computing power - will in the future be relegated to the bottom of the hour glass.
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