Re:Luna – Hack your sleep
by anigbrowl on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @10:36PM
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Yeah, monitoring your heart rate and breathing is a short step away from cataloging your sex life, or at least the part of it that takes place in bed, which is where most people like to get it on.
I am not that enthused about this whole 'quantified self' movement; it strikes me as Taylorism applied to leisure activities and now sleep. I have no confidence that the data will remain fully under user control; rather, incentives will appear that encourage people to grant non-revocable access for consumerist 'rewards,' which in turn will be employed to create consumer anxiety about suboptimal life patterns, which can be assuaged for the low, low cost of only $x/month.
I am not that enthused about this whole 'quantified self' movement; it strikes me as Taylorism applied to leisure activities and now sleep. I have no confidence that the data will remain fully under user control; rather, incentives will appear that encourage people to grant non-revocable access for consumerist 'rewards,' which in turn will be employed to create consumer anxiety about suboptimal life patterns, which can be assuaged for the low, low cost of only $x/month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
I like technology a lot, but I don't care for the idea of being cocooned by it 24/7.