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An app I'd like: track my mood, hormones, blood sugar, etc, and make suggestions to stabilize my mood, energy & concentration.

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Because social tech is so personal, everyone has different rules of etiquette in communication. Why can't software bridge these?

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Most social technologies strip consent from our interactions - and therefore control. Consent is important throughout society.

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I'm demoing @withknown here at

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Google and are the two places I've ever heard the euphemism "bio break".

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"You can't have perspective and be unkind. It's impossible. So is all information worth saving? Yes." @chrisdancy

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"If you look into your phone with the screen off, you see your reflection. If you turn it on, you disappear." Black mirror.

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"If you really want to live in the future, climb into a cave and start writing on rocks. It lasts." - @chrisdancy

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Everything not saved will be lost.

- Nintendo quit screen message
via @chrisdancy

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"A picture is worth 1000 data points." @chrisdancy talking about identity as a collection of "data moments".

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"It struck me that Walgreens looked like a Genius Bar." Moving to a world of self-service medical technology. @chrisdancy

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"Existence as a platform." The most quantified human on Earth, @chrisdancy, takes the stage.

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Implanting magnets in my fingers makes me squeamish, but I'd love to experience the effects. Gloves? Something else?

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Biocompatibility: an implanted device can function as designed without any adverse local or systemic effects in the host.

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This is an eye-opening talk about biohacking and the design of augmentary biological technology by @debcha.

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Biohacking seems related to transplantation. The latter swaps in new organs for better function; the former adds new function.

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"Grinding" in the context of body modification is a new, visceral, term for me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohacking

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Great distinction: choice vs user interfaces that enforce their own assumptions on the user. Rigidity vs configurable defaults.

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Speaking of calm technology (or the reverse), my phone is vibrating my jacket pocket at a rate of about three times a minute.

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A person's primary task should not be computing. [...] A computer's primary task should not be being human. - @caseorganic

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Narrative cameras are much calmer than Glass - but I still find them kind of creepy. Taking pictures all day long.

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

Privacy is the ability to not be surprised. - @caseorganic (I'd argue that this is control.)

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Replied to a post on werd.io :

Privacy can also be a feeling or perception of security. This perception of security can be designed. - @caseorganic

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