Okay, so I have posted a few blogs about the galvanic skin response monitors that measure one’s physiological level of engagement, and now I am getting into the swing of things. I understand that this “engagement pedometer” will be strapped to my wrist and called a bracelet. I understand it will know me better than I know myself, and it will communicate that information to nameless others. They will find things out about me. Like what makes me happy, what makes me sad, what makes me angry. But most important, they will find out what I want to buy!

So here is a website that says the future is not so far away. It says that in the not distant future, I will learn to communicate with products and they will communicate with me. Products will learn to be social, and I (or you, probably not I)  will talk to the products. I would not need to know my own mind, because my bracelet will make sure that the products know my mind. What a relief! At first, I wondered if this website was a parody, but given the techie ads all over it, I assumed that it is for real.

My friend Diana Senechal figured all of this out, and I am guessing she never saw the Salesforce-Biometric website just mentioned. Read her side-splitting account of the day she spent with her galvanic bracelet and her fruitless efforts to get free of it.

There are times when the best response to crazy stuff is to laugh.

Diane

A reader sent this animation. I think most everyone who reads this blog will find it humorous yet too true to be funny.

It depicts the way teachers are evaluated now. Being “very good” is not good enough. Being “perfect” is not good enough.

In what line of work are people expected to go higher and higher until they hit the top and are washed up because they can’t get any better?

Enjoy.

Diane