Credit Illustration by Sally Thurer
The above GIF accompanied Jenna Wortham’s story about how we’re more open with the apps on our phones about our health than we are our doctors. This makes sense. It’s easier to tell a database when you’ve shit your pants than any living human.
This GIF may not illustrate too much about our various social anxieties, but it does a good job of communication how smart phones are making it easier to map our health. The phone as x-ray is an excellent metaphor for that use.
