A good source may be:<br><br><a href="http://quantifiedself.com/">http://quantifiedself.com/</a><br><br>--Max<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/26 Natasha Vita-More <span dir="ltr"><natasha@natasha.cc></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi everyone –<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am working on a project and need your help. If you can provide any information or ideas on the following it would be great! All contributions will be included in the references of the project and any work that you are doing will be credited and referenced.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What wearable technologies (including hand held devises, appendable devises, and other technological interfaces and software for human use):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What apps are in use, being developed, or might be developed for humans to better understand their physical bodies?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This concerns issues such as physical health – (e.g., apps that might monitor a person’s hormone level, glucose level, etc.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>ii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This concerns issues of physical exercise – (e.g., apps that might help a person who is at the gym, which would have her exercise routine, or for running a marathon that might encourage the runner to keep going!)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>iii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This concerns issues such as mental health – (e.g., apps that might connect people if they feel lonely, depressed, etc.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>iv.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This might concern issues such as a person drinking too much alcohol, drugs, etc. (e.g., an app that remind a person that he is not supposed to be having more than 2 glasses of wine, or not to have more than 3 cigarettes a day, etc.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What apps are in use, being developed, or might be developed for humans become more intelligent?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This might be apps that would help a person with his memory by reminding him to make visual or verbal associations, etc. …<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.5in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span>ii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Or, this might be apps that would help a person with mathematics, linguistics, aesthetics – etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What apps do you think we need to create that would help humans become transhuman or posthuman?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What do you think we need to create that would help a person better understand ways in which s/he could become aware of posthuman futures, the singularity, etc?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>a.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What apps are in use, being developed, or might be developed for humans to enhance (human enhancement).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span>b.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What apps might remind a person about choices s/he makes that could affect his future longevity?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Natasha<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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