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Ernesto Ramirez
September 28, 2012
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Know Thyself (MedicineX)
The closing keynote at the self-tracking symposium at the 2012 MedicineX conference.
Ernesto Ramirez
September 28, 2012
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about ernesto ramirez | @e_ramirez
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know thyself Ernesto Ramirez | @e_ramirez
why?
two questions
why am i here?
who am i?
why am i here?
who am i?
quantifiedself.com
a child
dn1975
We are all Scientists
Curiosity* *go nasa
Curiosity
health?
do you really know?
? ? ?
not my problem
We have the tools to measure everything from our to
our . Even our can sense if we feel .
*detour*
BIG data
how big is BIG?
None
how big is BIG?
3,679,200,000,000,000
3,679,200,000,000,000+
big ≠ all
m3/s Courtesy of Kevin Kelly – kk.org
ourness
representation
self creation
ourness
wtf
our disruption
1 gutenberg
tim berners-lee vint cerf robert kahn david reed john shoch
yogen dalal carl sunshine ray tomlinson leonard kleinrock j.c.r. licklider robert taylor elmer shapiro steve carr steve crocker jeff rulifson jon stoughton et al. 2
3 ?
medical gutenbergs
i don’t know you
real2 information 3
our information
{pause} {i’m almost done}
empower
empOURr
knowledge
of for by US
for everyone
what now?
who am i?
thank you ernesto@quantifiedself.com