Re: MED: Practical Biomonitoring Garment

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 19:34:00 MST


> > A VEST which monitors the health of its wearer...

jeff nordahl wrote:

> Sounds like a hypochondriacs security blanket! What a nightmare! Another
> excuse for procrastination and unnecessary self awareness and paranoia....

Depends on how it is used. If we could collect the data from several
jillion users, we could mine that data and who knows what we would
discover. The individual user need not concern herself with the information
from the vest, but would dump it into a common datapool, for researchers
to investigate. spike



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