This document discusses a presentation about existence and the implications of digital technology on human behavior and identity. It covers several key topics: - How digital systems collect and organize vast amounts of personal data about individuals. - The challenges of having one's identity, behavior, health and environment tied to many different digital platforms and systems. - Potential solutions like focusing on designing technology for contemplation rather than just attention, and putting kindness into all digital products and services. - Implications such as "behavior as a platform," "environment as an interface," and "identity as a platform" as personalization and everything becoming programmable blurs the lines between people and technology. - The need for ethical

1. EXISTENCE

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AGENDA
Time isn’t now, it’s a collection of whens.
EXISTENCE
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Mission Review
Timeline of project and
reasons behind our
choices.
Marketplace
Changes to the market
place during our mission.
Disruption
Platform / Experience
review.
Dialog
Feedback and close.
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Be Still

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AGENDA
Time isn’t now, it’s a collection of whens.
EXISTENCE
Welcome
Our
Challenge
Five
Steps
Five
Lessons
Existence

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WELCOME
Chris Dancy
Chief Digital Officer & Mindful Cyborg
Technology has been designed to be interruptive and intrusive to our daily lives. By designing systems that collect information naturally in the
background as we go about our day and allowing digital services to translate that behavior into effective ambient, calm and kind feedback, we
can dramatically change our sense of well-being.
Hi everyone, we need each other.

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Christopher Matthew Dancy
Pressing Issues
BusinessWeek 2014 Cover
Magazines
BBC, Fox, WSJ
TV, Radio, Movies
25 Countries
Global Press
Wired, NPR, TechCrunch
Tech Press
About Me
“if there is one person qualified to speak for the
individuals of the world on the subject of the quantified
self it’s probably Chris Dancy” – March 2015, Wired.

6. THE
POWERPOINT
SLIDE PLUS
“The World's Most Connected Human.”

7. THE
POWERPOINT
SLIDE PLUS
“A robot from
the future”

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Post Privacy
None of us are really that interesting.
About Me
• October 11, 1968 at 4:17pm,
along with 10,349 others
• Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
• Charles and Priscilla Dancy
Birth
• WEIGHT: 185
• HEIGHT: 5’11inches,
• BLOOD OXYGEN: 97%,
• BMI: 21.5
• BLOOD PRESSURE: 101/62
• SLEEP: 7.3 hours per night
• MOVE: 26 miles per week
Health
• September 7 2050
• HIV Resistant
• 17.9% Venous
Thromboembolism
• 8.6% Age-related Macular
Degeneration
• .79% Multiple Sclerosis
Death
• $450,000.00 – 2013 – Federal
Income Taxes
• $800,000 – 2014 Home
• $75,000 – 2013 Volkswagen
• Williamson County - #10 for
wealth and health in the USA
Wealth
• 65 degrees
• 55 decibels
• 68.2 degrees
• 43% Humidity
• 30.22 Pressure
• CO2 601 ppm
Environment

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Why did I start this journey?
Nothing has really happened until it’s has been recorded.
We save everything or nothing.
We were told to show our work, to save our games,
to document our time.
We live in systems
We live in PC’s, mobile phones, fitness trackers,
smart homes, monitored environments.
We are suffering
We have never had more freedom yet felt so empty,
anxious and busy.
Existence

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Record and teach.
Removing each other from the story.
700 Years
Art Design, Photography
2000 Years
Art Design, Photography
3500 Years
Recording our versions of history.
30,000 Years
Language and learning in the age of
fight or flight.
Existence

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Save and distribute.
Redundant systems.
100 years
24 x 7 Culture, Globalization.
200 years
Rapid information delivery rise of the
anti-social system.
500 years
Information overload the the
renaissance.
600 years
Distribution of knowledge.
Existence

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Digitize and connect.
Easy to save
50 years
First Computer systems.
10 years
First web social networks.
Existence

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Consume and share?
Easy to consume
2015
We are losing language.
2014
We capture for no one.
2013
We hold nothing.
2012
We rent everything.
Existence

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Record and relive?
The relentless now.
2015
“It’s not about your activity, it’s about proving you exist.
2015
“We are forced to remember what year it is”
Existence

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Selling you back
Why are we buying back our behavior?
January 2015, want to be healthier in the new year? So does Apple. It’s not about food or being active, it’s about remembering who you are!

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We’re dissolving right in front of our own eyes.
Your digital life is a lot like the ark
The ability to save everything has made the value of everything nothing Yes we can stream music, movies and life, but who is watching and how? When you can speed up, slow down,
pause, rewind everything you can’t stand any system that can’t keep up We are becoming a culture of walking web pages, advertising our selves. Now that we can capture share and
throw every detail of our lives online, there is not need to live in anything other than the museum we’ve created.
Existence

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1943 - Big Mother vs. Big Brother
Losing everything teaches you to save everything.
1943 1949 1955 1965 1968 1988
JUL SEPT DEC JUN DEC JUN MAY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Existence

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1968 -1998 “I grew up in tech, and it almost killed me.”
Losing myself one day at a time.
1998
2000
2001
2003
1998 - Two Packs of cigarettes a day, 280 pounds
Wake up call, my health was starting to fail and I wasn’t even 30 years old.
2000 - Drinking every weekend
To mask my weight and social issues, I started drinking heavily.
2001 - Rock bottom
I write to my mother and ask for help. I tell her I can’t go on, I feel lost and I
don’t know who I am..
2003 – Relationship problems, 290 pounds.
My relationship of eight years starts to suffer.
Existence

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2003
The power of perspective, big mother versus big brother.
Boxes
Heavy boxes show up at my home in November
2003.
Christmas morning
Welcome to your life.
My first 30 years
Band-Aids, love letters, pomes, art, repot cards, and
a diary.
Existence

20. EASY EDIT
CHART
Section 06 – Easy Edit Chart
November 4, 2004

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2008
The Inner-net
Existence
What if I told you you never had to go offline?
Everything we touch is recorded. Credit cards, club
cards, social sites, searches, car computers, home
utilities. What could we learn if we had access to all our
data, how could it change us?

22. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Five Steps

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Step 1: How am I?
The most intimate of information is stored where and shown to you how?
My chart
Digitized my chart
My notes
Started my own notes
Paper
Could not find answers
Doctor
Didn’t know me.
Existence

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Step 1: The Worried Well.
Shame and fear of not being perfect.
Platforms
Recreate the 1990’s IT department.
Wearable Technology
Measure and shame.
Patient communities
Compare notes.
Big Data
Flu trends
Existence

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Step 1: Changing the future.
Environments shape people, not genes
Genetics
The building blocks.
Microbiomes
The little bits.
Existence

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Step 2: Who am I?
Most people exist in 100-300 different digital systems.
Existence

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Step 3: How do you organize a life?
Who are you?
Soft Data
Core Data
Lab results, Micro biome, genetics.
The “quantified” self.
Hard Data
Wearable, IOT, biological and
environmental data that can’t easily be
manipulated. The “actual” self.
Existence
Digital signature, identity, tastes,
preferences. The “constructed” self.
The “Fluid” self.
Our behavior is made up of many
facets of our digital experience, ranging
from what are preferences are, how our
bodies and environments react to our
genetic code.

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Step 4: Find what’s important.
Easy to collect, categorize, prioritize and transport.
Project
Move my information into a repository
where I can see, search and mine my
information.
Reflect
Prioritize what’s important for me. What
are my basic human needs and how do
they relate to the data I’m creating?
Protect
Categorize my data so it makes sense
and I can see how I spend my time.
Collect
Collect personal data with little
intervention and live my life.
Existence

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Step 5: How do you visualize your time?
Your living behavior is the genetic code for habit change.
Existence
Being able to see, search, mine, toggle and review my time in a calendar, weighted to the type of information and it’s purpose in my life is a break through. Suddenly random interactions
cast a shadow of meaningful insight into your day to day habits. Coincidence becomes opportunities to retool fate to put into motions different versions of a timeline.

30. OUR WORK
AMAZING
Section 05 – Our Work
Sustainable change can’t
be scheduled.

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Chronos time
An ordered view of time is the definition of how we experience our existence.
Existence
The ability to see your life in order creates a profound sense of direction. Timelines create a meaning for reflection and measurement. Chronos time as the Greek’s saw it defined the
purpose in order for our time and days. Western civilization understand linear time so that we can make sense of events.

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Kairos time
A seasonal view of our time is the definition of the possibilities of our existence.
Existence
The seasons or the opportune times in your life are harder to spot. These times, the Greeks referred to as “Kairos” don’t fall in a neat order. Biblically the God of Abraham referred to this
as seasons. In each of our interconnected lives we have seasons that change us and each other. If you could see yourself in a season or a collection of seasons, real change at a
cellular level is possible.

33. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Five Lessons

34. THE
POWERPOINT
SLIDE PLUS
Value of Data

35. OTHER SLIDE
CONTACT US
Section 07 – Contact Us / Text Slide
$10,000To know thyself should not be a
financial burden.

36. $20,000Smart homes make you aware,
not comfortable.

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Devices are cheap,
buying me back is
expensive.

38. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Identity

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Measured to death
Life itself can only be found in the data we choose to recall.

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We are the experience, not the user.
Changing the way we behave to mimic a desired state, will create a race of robots.
Identity
You are a web page.
We act like the internet. We
autosuggest answers to each other.
Connectivity
You have no friends.
People struggle to feel connected and
become uncomfortable when they are
not.
Contortion
Dangerous behavior for no
one.
We contort our body to capture
moments.
Consistency
You are the machine.
We change our behavior to avoid
humans, judgment and shame.
Existence

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We are defined by the systems you don’t use.
Tying financial systems to customer service or health may not be the best way forward.
Existence

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Data exhaust
Your digital behavior is a running car in the garage of your life.
Existence

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We become what
we bend into.

44. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of perspective

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The world revolves around you.
What if I told you there was no spoon?
Environment
Temperature, humidity, UV, sound, air quality, air
pressure, light, radiation.
Behavior
Co2 levels effect driving.
Routine
Light and sound bring me out of REM sleep.
Existence

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2013 vs. 2014
What can you do with environmental data?
70%
Sound
Environment: 2013 was a
much quieter year with my
average noise at home
coming in at 55db vs. 67db in
2013. I also warmed my heart
up, my average bedroom
temperature went from 73
degrees in 2013 to a balmy
77 degrees in 2014.
38%
Eat
Consumption: I dropped my
overall calorie intake by close
to 40% in 2014 vs. 2013.
60%
Move
Fitness: 60% of more my day
was spent moving.
88%
Sleep
Rest: 2321 hours vs. 1817
hours of deep sleep.
Existence

47. EASY EDIT
CHART
Section 06 – Easy Edit Chart
20 days

48. EASY EDIT
CHART
Section 06 – Easy Edit Chart
You’re not
broken, the
world is.

49. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Behavior

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Behavior as the interface. Existence, as the experience.
Convenience creates atrophy cognitive functions.
pplkpr
Other humans as an Interface via biology
Nest
Your body as the interface to your home
environment.
Automatic
The vehicle as the interface
Luna
Mattress as an interface
Existence

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Convenience atrophy
Ethical behavior starts with when not to correlate data.
“Easy street is paved with your attention and
populated with your privacy.”

53. “Your life is a
platform”

54. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Feedback

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Body of work
A little perspective applied.
2015
180 pounds
2014
220 pounds
2012
280 pounds
2011
320 pounds
Existence

56. OTHER SLIDE
CONTACT US
Section 07 – Contact Us / Text Slide
“Resilience is the act of
perpetual perspective.”

57. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Solutions & Implications

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Billions on the ground
Make it easy to review your life.
2015- Under Amour
.5 Billion
2015 – Trip Advisor
200 Million
2015 – Capital One
150 Million
2014 - Facebook
100 million

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Solutions
Top 10 focus areas
Existence
1. Focus on “Big Mother”
2. Design for contemplation,
not attention.
3. Put the Internet in your
products, not your products
on the internet.
4. Create low tech and human
gathering systems.
5. Repeatable substandard
beats inconsistently
remarkable.
6. Insert yourself into the
perpetual present.
7. Recognize the role fluid
Identity plays in
experiences.
8. Design for behavior as a
platform
9. Focus on a what a world
without keyboards or
screens looks like.
10. Put kindness in to all your
products, services,
applications, data and
devices.

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Implications - Prosumers
The corporatization of the individual
2012
IT’S NOT A PHONE
It’s gone from a phone
that takes pictures,
to a camera that makes
calls.
2014
INTERNET TO THE BODY
Apple, Google and
many startup health
organizations map the
human body.
2014
INTERNET TO THE HOME
IOT comes home to
roost as your body
becomes the middle
man.
2013
SMAC vs. SEAM
No more applications!
(Social, Mobile
Analytical, Cloud)
versus (Sensor,
Environment, Algorithm,
Mesh)
Existence

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Implications - Privacy
Convenience event horizon is reached.
2017
BEHVAIOR AS PLATFORM
Stitching together
predefined behaviors
becomes the platform
for anticipation over
attention.
2018
EXISTENCEAS PLATFORM
Everything starts to
become programmable
and feedback for
everything else. People
and environments merge
into a single routine.
Existence
2015
BODY AS INTERFACE
Services use biological
and environmental
factors as feedback
loops for experience.
2016
ENVIRONMENT AS ANINTERFACE
Devices become
interfaces for each
other and us.

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Implications - Personalization
Identity, narrative and ownership collide
Existence
IDENTITYAS A PLATFORM
The onslaught of
services catered to our
fluid identity creates a
marketplace for skin
walking devices and
services.
2020
PERSONIFICATION OFTHINGS
We embed identity into
things and services.
2019
HABIT AS A SERVICE
Habits and
environments replace
mainstream
applications as people
choose identity
services over
consumption.
YourBusinessGoals
here

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Ethical design
Can we design for kindness?
Contemplative Tech
Tech the engenders a deep
caring for others. Deepens
perspective.
Kind Tech
Systems that support a
compassion toward yourself
and behavior.
Value Tech
Systems that expose your
better self and values.
Calm Tech
Calm technology makes use of
our peripheral attention,
allowing us to be aware of
more things with less cognitive
overhead.
Disruptive Tech
Alerts, disturbs, pulls at
attention.
Existence

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Human-kindness
Is there a way to use our day to day data to reshape humanity?
Existence
“We need to stop solving human problems
with technology and start solving
technology problems with humanity.”

65. Chris Dancy
Chief Digital Officer, Mindful Cyborg