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Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life

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Re: Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life

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Drakim wrote: post #9
chunkiestbacon wrote: post #3

So incredibly depressing. Aren't we reminded enough already everywhere, that it will someday end?

Is simply "not thinking about it" the answer though? It seems to me that a lot of people deal with death by forgetting about it, and avoiding anything that reminds of it.

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Re: Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life

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Post by amimetic »

eterps wrote: post #11
amimetic wrote: post #2

I made a little (free) Android App a couple of years ago that does something similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.de...

It needs a progress bar (more visual)

I hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!

Re: Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life

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Post by jkscm »

Does a deadline produce better work and happier employees?

I doubt that this kind of think will have a motivating a effect. Reminding you of the estimated point in time when your body degraded so much that you will die does not sound great.

It's also purely egoistic. How about making some else's life better by doing things you don't like?

Re: Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life

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Post by eterps »

amimetic wrote: post #14
eterps wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs a progress bar (more visual)

I hope a progress bar would be too slowly moving to be of any use!

That's not what I meant. "18262 days" doesn't say much, but a progress meter (or maybe a pie chart with "Life lived" & "Life left") is more informative IMO.

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Post by exratione »

The time you have remaining is not a fixed number. It is increasing at about one year every decade at the moment, and that rate of increase might leap dramatically in the near future.

You can either be a freeloader, roll the dice and see where the work of other people on medtech takes you, or you can help to increase the amount of time you have left. Participate in initiatives like http://healthextension.co/, or donate to the SENS Research Foundation.

It is interesting to see that in a community ostensibly focused on creating change the first response to length of life line items is usually that length of life and trajectory of life is fixed and immutable.

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