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>“We’re entering the era of point-of-person monitoring, where instead of going to a doctor to get checked out, the doctor is basically always with us,” he said.
by Barrin92 5y ago
>“We’re entering the era of point-of-person monitoring, where instead of going to a doctor to get checked out, the doctor is basically always with us,” he said. “The data are collected, analyzed and provided right on the body, giving us real-time feedback to improve our health and well-being"*
Or alternatively, we'll enter a new era of medical surveillance where healthy people are turned neurotic by being subjected to unnecessary medical interventions because their watch tells them their stress levels deviate from the 'norm'.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
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- hackernewshell 5y agoI don't want to know my health status when looking at my watch. I'm neurotic enough. From college to nervous breakdown; I was way to occupied what my body was doing. Apple must do marketing research, and decided most people want to know their vitals on a daily basis?
- abletonlive 5y agoI mean it's pretty useful information. Imagine seeing an indicator that tells you that you have elevated levels of stress, and then you can try different things to reduce the stress. Eventually you could learn, with pretty decent confidence, what works for you and what doesn't.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoThe blood oxygen level has been useful to me. I have both asthma and anxiety. Figuring out what’s an asthma attack and what’s a panic attack is helpful.
- kadoban 5y agoHave you found one that's actually anything like accurate? Every smartwatch I've tried either reads way low or has some other ~obvious sign of not being correct.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoMy Apple Watch seems accurate enough, if the pulseox reader I have is correct.
- hulitu 5y agoHow about being served ads based on your state ? Is this still ok ?
- colechristensen 5y agoSome people can't handle this kind of information very well just like some people can't handle (alcohol|tobacco|social media|video games|sex|marijuana|fitness|etc.) I don't want to live in a world where we can't have things because some people don't handle them well. I would much rather teach people to be good at recognizing and mitigating their weaknesses than to prevent everyone from having access or insinuating things are generally bad which only affect a few.
- rootsudo 5y agoI can't understand why some people can not. This information is just empirical data points. The feedback loops for the other things are pretty bad, fitness isn't so bad imo.
- colechristensen 5y agoIt doesn’t matter if you can’t understand why as long as you accept that some do (or don’t).
- verisimi 5y agoIts not about whether you can or cannot handle information. The problem is that this information is not yours. There is an intermediary. There are the companies involved and the governance structure. So, if the governance structure creates a rule that all watches should report to the government when there is a potential medical emergency, and even that you should be isolated and kept locked in - what can you do about it? So, this is good information, but information in a different set of hands can be used against your interests. Then you get into the idea that the government is here to help. I disagree. I think the government is here to govern, and that it acts against me in many ways even though I am doing nothing wrong. Is it ok for me to have a different perspective? Must I accept the government constraints and the (self-serving) laws it writes? To statist (those who believe in the political paradigm on both the blue and red teams) I should apparently accept government dictats. People seem to forget that everything the Nazis (National Socialists) did was legal too. A government (which is made up of people like you and I, only the seek power over others) can write appalling laws into the statute. Anyway, it is naive to think that this is about information. This is another incremental step towards tyranny.
- tpoacher 5y agoOld Lamplighter? Is that you?