When Your Smartwatch Adds to the Stress
Smartwatches are supposed to help us manage our lives. They track our steps, monitor our sleep, count our workouts, remind us to stand up, and increasingly use AI to turn all that personal data into helpful advice. Then, just when you’re finally relaxing, your wrist buzzes to let you know you should probably relax.
That’s the strange relationship we have with wearable technology. The devices designed to make life easier have also become one more source of notifications, reminders, warnings, goals, updates, and little vibrations demanding our attention. If your technology is already remembering more than you are, see Memory Full Happens to Everyone.
Artificial intelligence is making smart devices even smarter, from health insights and personalized recommendations to AI assistants like ChatGPT that can help us make sense of information. But helpful technology still has a remarkable ability to become part of the problem it was designed to solve. For another Chad Geepeety™ look at our complicated relationship with artificial intelligence, see Can You Trust ChatGPT?
Maybe my smartwatch is right about the stress.
I just wish it would stop reminding me.
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