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Pedometers tracked philandering spouses and sleepy employees back in the 1800s.
If you thought step counting and activity tracking was a new-ish thing, apparently not! This excerpt from Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media goes into how wealthy people in the 1800s used pedometers as a form of surveillance — tracking naughty spouses, and checking to see if soldiers were properly patrolling... or just taking a nap during the night shift.
Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech
[The MIT Press Reader]
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