“Big Mother is Watching You”

·     First thing she does every morning is check her phone

·     Her sleeping stats are tracked with an app called “Sleep Cycle”

·     Mid-thirties, childless journalist

·     Excited when she gets over 8 hrs of sleep

·     Sleep quality percentage is extremely important to her

·     Uses sleeping percentage in sense of a letter grade

·     Lives her life by stats

·     Wants to present herself to others in a particular way

·     “Actionless sleep and good sleep are not the same thing.”

·     “By 2018, there will be 60 million fitness trackers in use worldwide.”

·     Internet takes existing information and organizes it to make is both accessible and acceptable

·     The future will most likely consist of new data in which new employers will create easier ways for us to track data, whether we like it or not (example: new apple watches and fitbits)

“We are all cyborgs now”

·     Amber Case claims, “Technology is evolving us.”

·     As a whole, we rely on “external brains” (AKA technology) to communicate

·     Cyborg- “an organism to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to a new environment”

·     People get used to technology, which is why there is always interest in new technology

·     Children are brought up around technology to the point where they won’t be able to reflect on themselves mentally because their whole lives revolve around technology

·     Ultimately, communication isn’t being done face to face anymore

·     Considers how our values and culture are being shaped by living lives by high technology