Technology Quarterly | The quantified self
Wearable devices are connecting health care to daily life
This will transform how people look after themselves
BRYAN JOHNSON has just spent another weekend being examined. “On Saturday the sonographer was measuring…my ankles and knees and hips and shoulders and elbows, assessing what is the age of my tendons and ligaments,” he says. It is part of a mission to have all 70-plus organs of his body measured in exhaustive detail so he can see whether, and to what extent, his healthy lifestyle is rejuvenating them.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “The quantified self”
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