Tech Review shows us how the quantified self movement may create the patient of the future.
The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads.
This strikes me as the best way to evaluate this idea and leads us to ask the same question about personalized genomics that the quantified self movement asks about every other metric: will it improve performance.
"Monitoring cardiorespiratory health and stress levels are an important yet neglected aspect of understanding one's health and wellness progression which is in line with the Quantified Self movement" said Juliana Chua, Principal of Zensorium's Business Innovation Group.
At the heart of the quantified self-movement lies a very simple idea: metrics make us better.
The self-tracking movement has already done a lot to raise awareness.
Guerrero has seen a growing movement of self-defence groups in response to violent criminal gangs and the failure of police to guarantee security.
Roll Over and Die Laughing IBM's momentous decision this month to wind down its traditional pension plan in favor of 401(k)s will no doubt accelerate the movement toward self-directed retirement savings.
She is a self-taught vegetarian cook, practices yoga, and is passionate about physical movement, creativity, and self-care.
This is the positive result of the growing passion for food, rather than a collection of grumblings about how self-indulgent this diverse movement is.
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The leaders of the growing labour movement were exactly the kind of self-educated men who prided themselves on a fierce intellectual independence from ready-made doctrine.
The tragic death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, by self-immolation, brought about a grassroots political movement among Tunisians that effectively overthrew the country's authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
She said he had filled in a self assessment form in 2002 in which he said his movement was limited.
Protesters demand an apology, but the fundamentalist movement said its guards were provoked and acted in self-defense.
The assumption that women should be altruistic and self-effacing pervades both mainstream society and some precincts of the feminist movement.
But however self-seeking and power-hungry Mr Thaksin may be, the red-shirt movement now dwarfs his individual ambition.
If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.
The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, which means that the mediums were experiencing reduced focus, lessened self-awareness and fuzzy consciousness during psychography.
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It sees the dispute as a purely bilateral matter between the two governments and conceding any form of self-determination for the people of Gibraltar would set an unwelcome precedent that might be exploited by the separatist movement in the Basque country of northern Spain.
Once a movement gains enough adherents within a population, it is only a matter of time before its growth becomes self-sustaining.
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