A Scale that Tweets Your Weight? Meet the Quantified Self

  • 9 years ago
A Scale that Tweets Your Weight? Meet the Quantified Self
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - X|Media|Lab
As social networks become more pervasive and change the way we interact, New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas asks what happens "to our minds and our hearts when we become digital people?" Is the social web the world finds itself tangled in a totally new experience?Anand Giridharadas doesn't think so. He draws parallels between the "ambient sociability" of village life in Bombay with the sprawling online communities we now interact with daily.