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What impressed me most is how,
The thin red line to excessive
within such a short amount of time,
usage, I have to admit however, is
you get so used to this playful way
not easy to navigate. That step into
of documenting your daily life. Your
obsessive
»quantified self« is no longer a
your life according to your daily
strange and mysterious being but an
digital breakdown, judging your day
implicit part of yourself. Now I can
by trophies won and virtual goals
understand the claims of my friends
achieved. It’s important not to let your
who like running and document every
digital diet coach become a digital
single one of their runs on a fitness
diet dictator or let the fit band turn
app: it’s almost unimaginable to do it
into a shackle.
behaviour,
organising
without your digital companion.
Dorothee Bär is a member of the German Parliament and currently serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. She is the chairwoman of CSUnet (the CSU’s internet policy committee) and the CSU internet council.
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