Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So much so that Wired magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using a combination of sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking software, Dancy is seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire being that he says will one day enable him to outsource much of his activity to an algorithmic “online version of himself”.
Dancy considers his project to be both a science experiment and a “digital cave drawing”. Drawing on the pursuits of the health-conscious ‘quantified self’ movement, a group of tech enthusiasts championed by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly, Dancy’s project extends this urge to track, quantify and assess daily life to the very limit.
