Is too much health data a problem?
Every day we see more and more data about our health—from exercise information to cholesterol numbers. In this video, HealthMaker Juan Enriquez, Chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, discusses the challenge of dealing with this data.
Transcript
Now, even the couch potato watching sports has a ticker with three different strands across the bottom.
And he's got what's coming up on the left, and he's got the comments on the right, and the game is going live in the middle.
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Well, there's some really interesting questions as to what it does to our bodies and our brains to have this scale of data coming in.
If you think of what happens to a tortoise, if you move it from a desert and put it in a jungle,
oh, boy, that tortoise better adapt and adopt, or that tortoise is no more. Now, think about watching sports.
So it used to be that information overload was having a black and white screen bringing the world into your living room, and now, even the couch potato
watching sports has a ticker with three different strands across the bottom. And he's got what's coming up on the left,
and he's got the comments on the right, and the game is going live in the middle. So even watching television has become like a Wall Street
trader with three screens out there, and that's going to modify the way we think. That's going to modify the way we-- maybe the way we're wired,
maybe the way we adapt information. We're just beginning to learn about the effects of this. [AUDIO LOGO]
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