Expect to hear more about the "quantified self" movement — the name for a growing mass of devices, apps and technologies that sense, save and synthesize everything about you. And we do mean everything.
We've all heard about wristbands that track your heart rate and fitness. But what about a device that maps every place you've ever been, everything you've ever said and everyone you've ever met? It could happen sooner than you think.
"2014 is going to be the year where consumers are literally going to wake up to how much information they create and wonder where it's all going," Chris Dancy, 45, of Denver, a quantified-self trailblazer who has made headlines for the reams of data he collects on himself.
Evidence that we are on the cusp of a personal data revolution exists in the devices we already own: Smartphones are increasingly logging personal data, with the Samsung Galaxy S4 automatically charting the temperature, humidity and air pressure of the user's environment. The Moto X phones are constantly listening to surrounding audio. The new iPhone 5s tracks motion, and an increasing number of apps track our digital movements. Favorites, an app for iOS and Android, monitors communication with loved ones and notifies you when it's been too long since you've called grandma.
Another product aimed at self-insight is the upcoming audio-recording wristband Kapture, which constantly records audio in 60-second increments. If something has happened that you want to remember, you simply press a button and the previous 60 seconds are saved. The Kapture is a precursor to something that will be truly revolutionary: a continuous audio archive stream. No longer will you and your mate quarrel over who said what and when. You'll settle the matter with what amounts to a self-Google search. The possibilities are endless — not all of them good, or under current wiretap laws, even legal.
Eventually, more comprehensive devices will emerge, pulling together these disparate metrics. The same wristband or smartphone that records your audio will also chart your movements, speed and heart rate, along with the air quality, the weather and more. You'll be able to tell where you were in any moment in time — where and at what precise second your child said his or her first word, for example.
Dancy is already collecting hundreds of data points about his personal health and whereabouts via the many devices he uses on and around him. It may seem incredibly eccentric, but in an age where advertisers and big companies are collecting tons of information about us, why not get ahead of your own personal data and use it to get to know yourself better, and eventually, to improve your life?
Dancy predicts that the health sector will see the first big wave of these devices, with a snowball effect that will eventually result in consumer adoption.
"Within 24 months there won't be an occupation not affected by wearable computing and personal data," Dancy said.
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