The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World

by Gabriel Rene

Wearable technology does offer amazing benefits and can revolutionize the healthcare industry. It enables us to use data to become more aware of our health in order to improve our well-being and prevent future health risks and illnesses. Fitness wearables address step tracking, sleep monitoring, and heart rate tracking, and even more complicated metrics such as diet, posture, skin temperature, and respiratory rate. They collect data regarding weight gain or loss, blood oxygen levels, and stress, which can be used to highlight potential risk factors or even alert others in real-time if life-threatening changes occur. For both preventative and protective reasons, wearable technology will continue to be adopted. Apple has indicated that “Health” is their new frontier, and that is good because, where Apple goes, the rest of the market tends to follow. However, the potential misuse of wearable health data for inappropriate monitoring, tracking, and classification increases the risk of discriminatory actions by insurance providers, employers, and governments and further allows these companies to exploit user data through third-party sales.