Ah, the wonders of technology. An Ars Technica article elaborates on MEMswear a new technology embedded in clothing that would help communicate the state of an elderly person to their family and local authorities.

These networked objects do a little to solve some of the issues surrounding an elderly person's independence on an everyday level but very little to address the more important problems of infrastructures and health services available to a person in need. I think that technology is more powerful when it addresses some of the root causes of problems rather than try to efficiently react to problems as they arise.

Feeling like a rat lab with an electronic collar does not feel like the future...

CATEGORY: AGEING