Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

The arrival of quantified self means that it's no longer just what you type that is being weighed and measured, but how you slept last night, and with whom.

On the one hand, we can foresee these companies extending their reach ever further into everyday life, to a point where it would become difficult to even articulate why you would want a different model, since our use of these technologies and the politics embedded in them also permits or restricts our ways of thinking about how to live.