Orzag: How Wi-Fi Adds to America’s Class Divide

[xchrom]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-22/how-my-wi-fi-scale-adds-to-america-s-class-divide-peter-orszag.html

I now have more health information on my wrist than my doctor had about me 10 years ago, and I’m hopeful that it’s going to help keep me healthier.

But it’s worrisome, too, because the same technological change that allows any of us to walk around with all this personal data at a glance may wind up exacerbating the growing gap in life expectancy between people with high levels of income and education and those without.

New technologies allow us to collect our own health data and store it in an online record. When combined with information from doctors and other providers, it can present a picture of someone’s well-being more nuanced than anything available before.

I know from experience, for example, that if I weigh myself most days, I am more likely to eat nutritious foods and maintain my weight. But I’ve never succeeded in recording the results consistently, which is unfortunate because doing so would provide a useful history for my doctor, signaling potential health risks.

[Enrique]

1. also, the Bush tax cuts

which Orzsag argued we should extend.

http://www.americablog.com/2010/09/peter-orszag-argues-for-bush-tax.html

[LiberalLoner]

2. K&R n/t

[bemildred]

3. That's it, blame it on WiFi.

:+

[xchrom]

4. ...

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