Karin Spaink on Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:00:44 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Will your insurance company subsidize your quantified self? |
Also, it's an incentive for self-surveillance and permanent awareness. Monitor your own body, before somebody else does. (Where is Foucault now tat we desperately need him?) On Apr 14, 2014, at 20:50 , Florian Cramer wrote: > This is likely the beginning of a social class and status symbol > reversal for electronic technology and digital devices. It's > foreseeable that affordable healthcare, transport, insurance policies, > pension plans, will only be available to those who subscribe to > behavioral tracking and control via mobile sensor devices, and have > themselves monitored for compliant lifestyles. And whatever will be > left of welfare cheques and unemployment severance pay, will only be > paid on the condition of behavioral tracking as well. > > As Enzensberger's "Rules for the Digital World" suggest - somewhat > unintentionally -, freedom of electronic devices will be a privilege > of the wealthy. In the near future, to be upper class will no longer > mean that you carry the latest electronic gadget, but that you can > afford the luxury surcharge for a life without tracking devices. - K - -- Girls are never what they seem. - Philip Marlowe in The Singing Detective, e3 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org