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Revision as of 18:17, 18 July 2021

This is a timeline of quantified self. Covert surveillance or tracking of the self by others is not discussed in this timeline.

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  • Concept introduction
  • Service launch
  • Device launch
  • Literature
  • Background technology
  • Notable case
  • Data politics

Big picture

Time period Development summary More details
Ancient times Early ideas Monitoring, measuring and recording elements of one's body and life as a form of self-improvement or self-reflection is already discussed in ancient times.[1]
Latter half of the 20th century onwards Early technologies The Digital Revolution introduces technologies that facilitate tracking practices, leading to renewed interest in self-tracking.[1] The term database is introdiced in the 1960s. "Technically quantified self has been an idea since the 1970s"[2] In the 1990s, people start experimenting with lifelogging techniques and wearable computing devices.[1]
21st century Consolidation The term quantified self is invented. "The Quantified Self movement was founded by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in 2007"[3]

Visual and numerical data

Mentions on Google Scholar

Year quantified self self tracking life logging human enhancement
1980 2,780 3,770 30,300 10,300
1985 3,460 4,660 7.830 15,900
1990 7,340 9,440 50,300 32,600
1995 12,300 18,500 13,400 65,700
2000 23,300 38,500 56,600 138,000
2002 30,500 54,000 28,100 153,000
2004 41,700 68,500 33,200 182,000
2006 56,000 88,000 39,700 212,000
2008 69,900 109,000 48,600 233,000
2010 86,500 131,000 76,500 250,000
2012 99,800 153,000 106,000 287,000
2014 99,500 162,000 99,100 276,000
2016 85,900 151,000 91,000 220,000
2017 80,400 147,000 83,200 184,000
2018 67,300 126,000 73,800 147,000
2019 51,300 97,200 59,300 109,000
2020 36,300 75,400 43,300 78,400
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Full timeline

Year Month and date (approximately) Event type Details
1945 Notable comment (lifelogging) American presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush publishes an essay asserting his belief that humans' ability to remember could be enhanced by technology. In this essay, Bush introduces his idea of the Memex, a mechanized device in which people could store all their documents, records, books, letters and memos. People could wear small cameras on their foreheads to capture details of their daily lives and add them to the Memex archive.[1]
1972–1997 Notable case (lifelogging) "A known lifelogger was Robert Shields, who manually recorded 25 years of his life from 1972 to 1997, at 5-minute intervals. This record resulted in a 37-million word diary, thought to be the longest ever written."
1980 The first wireless ECG is invented.
1998 Notable case Using digital technologies, American electrical engineer Gordon Bell starts recording as many aspects of his life as possible, including all his correspondence and documents, books he has read, photos, home movies and videos, computer files, mementos, meetings, conversations and phone calls. In 2000, he would start wearing a camera, and in 2002, BodyMedia, an early health-tracking armband.[1]
1999 "eHealth is a relatively recent healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication, dating back to at least 1999."[4]
2001 Experiment MyLifeBits launches as a life-logging experiment. It is a Microsoft Research project inspired by Vannevar Bush's hypothetical Memex computer system.[5]
2005 MyFitnessPal is launched. It is a health smartphone app that tracks nutrition, exercise, and diet. In 2020, MyFitnessPal would be acquired by Francisco Partners for US$345 million.[6]
2006 April 23andMe
2006 August 24 Background technology Amazon.com releases its Elastic Compute Cloud product. Cloud computing starts being popularized.[7]
2007 January 15 Service launch (reading tracker) Goodreads is founded. It is a mobile and web app that allows its users to find, share, recommend, read, and review the books they like. In 2013, it would be acquired by Amazon.[8] As of 2021, Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.[9]
2007 January 28 Service launch (task manager) Todoist is founded. It keeps track of tasks, projects, and goals in one simple place, synching across all the users devices and integrating with all their favorite apps.[10]
2007 March 26 Fitbit
2007 The term quantified self is proposed in San Francisco by Wired magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly as "a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking."[11][12]
2007 September 25 Domain name registration quantifiedself.com is registered.[13]
2008 "At the center of the quantified self movement is, appropriately, the Quantified Self community, which in October 2012 comprised 70 worldwide meetup groups with 5,000 participants having attended 120 events since the community formed in 2008 (event videos are available online at http://quantifiedself.com/)."[14]
2009 February Literature David Ewing Duncan publishes Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World.[15]
2012 April Literature Bruce W. Perry publishes Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health.[16]
2012 September " The group's third conference was held at Stanford University in September 2012 with over 400 attendees."[14]
2012 October "At the center of the quantified self movement is, appropriately, the Quantified Self community, which in October 2012 comprised 70 worldwide meetup groups with 5,000 participants having attended 120 events since the community formed in 2008"[14]
2012 October "The Quantified Self web site listed over 500 tools as of October 2012 (http://quantifiedself.com/guide/), mostly concerning exercise, weight, health, and goal achievement."[14]
2013 Concept introduction Michael Savage uses the term 'lively data' in an article, to denote the constant generation of large masses of digital data as part of the digital data economy, and the implications of this practice for sociological research methods.[1]
2014 May 21 Wellness & Prevention, a division of Johnson & Johnson, launches self-tracking app Track Your Health, which allows users to track and aggregate data, set goals, and visualize their weight, movement and nutrition progress in the form of charts.[17]
2014 July "In July 2014 a smart technology footwear was introduced in Hyderabad, India. The shoe insoles are connected to a smartphone application that uses Google Maps, and vibrate to tell users when and where to turn to reach their destination.[18][19][20][21]"
2014 October 28 Health-tracking platform launch Google Fit launches.[22]
2016 April 8 Literature Dawn Nafus publishes Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life, which elaborates on social, cultural, political, and economical aspects of quantified self. The book discusses empowering, social control, volunteering, enforcement, data interpretation, and how does all this affect the relationship between medical practice and self care, between scientific and lay knowledge.[23]
2016 May 2 Literature Deborah Lupton publishes The Quantified Self, which "critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the concepts of selfhood and human embodiment and the value of the data that underpin them".[1]
2016 June 24 Literature Dawn Nafus and Gina Neff publish Self-Tracking: The Mit Press Essential Knowledge Series, which introduces the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.[24]
2016 September 7 Literature Deborah Lupton publishes The Quantified Self.[25]
2017 September 11 Literature Phoebe V. Moore publishes The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts, which attempts to demonstrate how workplace quantification leads to high turnover rates, workplace rationalization and worker stress and anxiety.[26]
2017 September 28 Literature Burkhardt Funk and Mark Hoogendoorn publish Machine Learning for the Quantified Self: On the Art of Learning from Sensory Data, which explains the complete loop to effectively use self-tracking data for machine learning.[27]
2018 May 8 Health-tracking platform launch "Google, Android P take on phone addiction with Android Dashboard"[28]
2019 Service launch (metabolic health tracker) NutriSense is founded. It is a data-driven metabolic health platform that tracks key metabolic markers in real-time. It uses continuous glucose monitoring, AI-powered meal tracking, and expert coaching. It uses machine learning technology.[29][30]
2020 June 1 "Google updates Pixel devices with a new "bedtime" feature, new safety features"[31]
2020 August 27 Health-tracking platform launch "AMAZON ANNOUNCES HALO, A FITNESS BAND AND APP THAT SCANS YOUR BODY AND VOICE"[32][33]
2021 March 31 "Cisco is adding new "People Insights" to Webex to help you keep your professional screen time on track."[34]
2021 April 15 "Researchers in Japan have built a PV-powered device to measure volumetric variations in blood circulation. The system, which is just a few microns thick, was built with an organic solar module, a polymer light-emitting diode (PLED), and an organic photodetector."[35]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Lupton, Deborah (2 May 2016). The Quantified Self. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-5095-0059-8. 
  2. ↑ Wong, Kai (15 November 2019). "The Quantified Self movement is dead". Medium. 
  3. ↑ "The Quantified Self Movement: Self-Tracking in the Data Gold Rush". Bloomsoup. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2021. 
  4. ↑ Della Mea, Vincenzo (22 June 2001). "What is e-Health (2): The death of telemedicine?". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 3 (2): e22. PMC 1761900Freely accessible. PMID 11720964. doi:10.2196/jmir.3.2.e22Freely accessible. 
  5. ↑ "MyLifeBits". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 19 July 2021. 
  6. ↑ "MyFitnessPal - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  7. ↑ "Announcing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – beta". 24 August 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2014. 
  8. ↑ "Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  9. ↑ "Goodreads - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  10. ↑ "Todoist - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  11. ↑ Wolf, Gary. "Quantified Self". Gary Wolf. Archived from the original (blog) on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2012-03-26. 
  12. ↑ Singer, Emily. "The Measured Life". MIT. Retrieved 2011-07-05. 
  13. ↑ "quantifiedself.com whois lookup - who.is". who.is. Retrieved 19 July 2021. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Swan, Melanie (June 2013). "The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery". Big Data. 1 (2): 85–99. doi:10.1089/big.2012.0002. 
  15. ↑ Duncan, David Ewing (2009). Experimental man : what one man's body reveals about his future, your health, and our toxic world. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. ISBN 9780470176788. 
  16. ↑ Perry, Bruce W. (2012). Fitness for geeks : real science, great nutrition, and good health (1st ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 1449399894. 
  17. ↑ "Johnson & Johnson subsidiary launches self-tracking app". MobiHealthNews. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2021. 
  18. ↑ McGregor, Jay (25 July 2014). "India's Take On Google Glass, A Vibrating Smartshoe". Forbes. Retrieved 26 July 2014. 
  19. ↑ Thoppil, Dhanya Ann Thoppil (24 July 2014). "India's Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 July 2014. 
  20. ↑ Anthony, Sebastian (24 July 2014). "The smartshoe: A much more sensible approach to wearable computing than Glass or a smartwatch". Extreme Tech. Retrieved 26 July 2014. 
  21. ↑ "A smart shoe from Indian firm". Deccan Chronicle. 27 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014. 
  22. ↑ Sawers, Paul (28 October 2014). "Google launches Google Fit app for Android, capturing all your fitness data in one place". TNW | Apps. Retrieved 5 May 2021. 
  23. ↑ Nafus, Dawn (8 April 2016). Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03417-3. 
  24. ↑ Neff, Gina; Nafus, Dawn (24 June 2016). Self-Tracking. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52912-9. 
  25. ↑ Lupton, Deborah. The Quantified Self. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-5095-0063-5. 
  26. ↑ Moore, Phoebe V. (11 September 2017). The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-20160-1. 
  27. ↑ Hoogendoorn, Mark; Funk, Burkhardt. Machine Learning for the Quantified Self: On the Art of Learning from Sensory Data. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-66308-1. 
  28. ↑ Ng, Alfred. "Google wants to help you fight phone addiction". CNET. Retrieved 4 April 2021. 
  29. ↑ Collier, Kara. "NutriSense V2.0 - Discover and reach your health potential". Product Hunt. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  30. ↑ "NutriSense - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 18 July 2021. 
  31. ↑ Condon, Stephanie. "Google updates Pixel devices with a new "bedtime" feature, new safety features". ZDNet. Retrieved 4 April 2021. 
  32. ↑ "Introducing Amazon Halo and Amazon Halo Band—A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness | Amazon.com, Inc. - Press Room". press.aboutamazon.com. Retrieved 4 April 2021. 
  33. ↑ Bohn, Dieter (27 August 2020). "Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice". The Verge. Retrieved 4 April 2021. 
  34. ↑ Condon, Stephanie. "Cisco adds new "People Insights" to Webex for a work-focused spin on digital wellness". ZDNet. Retrieved 4 April 2021. 
  35. ↑ "I've got solar over my skin". pv magazine International. Retrieved 17 April 2021. 
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