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Esther Dyson, the woman behind Flickr, del.icio.us, and maybe even the entire Internet as we know it, takes us through a guided tour through some of her latest brainchilds..

Health care can be divided into three groups. The first being old school medicine and health care..

Bad health could be the second group. This where you would put bad habits, fat foods, smoking and so on. Bad health is a major economy, and needs to be recognised..

Health itself is the third. Doing stuff for yourself, fitness, eating right and so on. Hence the leading health company actually could be Nike. Recording data is essential to future health care. Sharing data gives us boosts in different ways. Perhaps we'll be ashamed of our perfomance, or maybe our lust for competition will be a key trigger. In these cases social networking is essential..

23andme gives you your genetic data. A DNA sample gives you an overview of potential diseases. The health overview gives you information about the individual risks to your health. This helps you to combat these potential health hazards.
The website can also track relatives throughout the vast DNA database..

Another site is myZeo, which is a personal sleep coach. The site can track your sleep data, thus helping you to help yourself to a better sleep. To keep track one needs to sleep with a head band..

This information needs to be voluntary. The democratising of data forces responsibility onto the user. Data is knowledge, and knowledge forces a response.