Sir, Lucy Kellaway writes about the ever increasing number of products supposed to help us manage intelligently many daily chores “We need more smart products because we are stupid” June 13. I think she has missed a very interesting point, namely our efforts to beat these products because we’re smarter.
For instance children who are concerned with their parents not walking enough have furnished many of us a Fitbit... for many of us a torture instrument. That represents a great market opportunity for hackers or app developers who find a way to surreptitiously multiply the number of daily steps taken. I am currently working on a more basic method I call “Walking the Fitbit”. It very simply consists in a group of neighbors organizing themselves to take turns walking each other’s Fitbits. I can already see before me seven Fitbits gladly sharing the same arm… while six happy walkers take a day off.
We will survive!
@PerKurowski ©