Apps for life

Most apps claim to take the stress out of [fill in the blanks], while they introduce the stress of conducting your life based on best practices and expert app advice. Apps tell you what to eat based on your gut bacteria, how many steps to walk, how to manage your finances, and how to navigate to your destination. And this is just the beginning.

Slowly but surely, we become dependent on apps and unable to make decisions or take actions without them. A person losing their smart phones feels lost until replacing it with a new one and installing their favorite apps and contacts, all backed up in the cloud.

Future archaeologists will form an understanding of how we lived our lives based on data mining, piecing our digital trails together to understand our daily routines (places and events we attended, questions we googled, websites we visited, posts we read and wrote, music we listened to, goods we ordered, pictures and videos we took, etc). From all these they will deduct our worries, dreams, creativity and mindset.

If you are not yet deep into the app world, start tracking your life. You can even track your happiness and view all your data at a glance on a dashboard. Just don't forget to live your life while you are busy tracking it and making the life a future archaeologist easier.