{"id":289128,"date":"2017-03-20T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7ae11e0880a92a32d9fc4adef06a9636"},"modified":"2017-03-20T07:54:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:54:23","slug":"opinion-what-masochistic-wearable-tech-says-about-desire-for-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=289128","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What &#8216;masochistic&#8217; wearable tech says about desire for choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, consumers bought three million wearable fitness trackers in the United Kingdom alone. Most of this technology is benign, marketed as a tool to inform people of their physical activity. But there is also a growing consumer appetite for technologies that take control of their lives and place limits on the choices available to them. In this post,\u00a0Dr Tim Hill asks what is driving consumers&#8217; appetite for this new genre of technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, consumers bought three million wearable fitness trackers in the United Kingdom alone. Most of this technology is benign, marketed as a tool to inform people of their physical activity. But there is also a growing consumer appetite for technologies that take control of their lives and place limits on the choices available to them. In this post,&nbsp;Dr Tim Hill asks what is driving consumers&#8217; appetite for this new genre of technology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289129,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289128\/revisions\/289129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}