From the shrink in your pocket to the quantified self: Self-tracking and self-care

Abstract

Back in 2006, the editor of this volume (Jody Ranck) was co-directing the health practice at the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley think tank that studies technology trends, and we were holding one of our regular conferences on emerging technologies and business models in health care and trying to come up with some scenarios on where mobile health and personal heath technologies might lead in the coming years.