More Words, Deeper Hole

I was in a conversation about such things just yesterday. It seems to me that the optimal phone app would not pester the human at all, while making the raw data available to the curious user, and only call attention to itself when the human needed some attention. ("*beep* Your blood sugar is low. How is your insulin supply?") Users who are at-risk or hypochondriacs should be able to choose an emergency call number for particular events, letting the phone text their doctor when they have a heart attack. None of this is particularly tricky, only the biological monitoring stuff doesn't come with a smartphone already, and it wouldn't surprise me to hear about such an app hitting the market any time now.

Although I haven't read Age of the Pussyfoot in years; I should re-read it at some point. With luck it isn't buried in storage.