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let others know that before you even speak to them. I wrote about this potential culture clash in my Mashable piece “The Impending Social Consequences of Augmented Reality.”Private data revealed in a digital context via technologies like augmented reality is going to lead to a lot of awkward situations:
Ford’s MyKey technology, available since January 2011, lets parents program cars for teens so they can’t go over 80 mph or listen to the stereo until all seat belts are engaged. While the features were originally designed for teen safety, the technical framework could certainly be utilized in a different context . . . for instance, to vet whether or not a parent is worthy of driving children in a car pool. If via my “You Drive Like an Asshat” app I see you score a two out of ten on safety, my kid doesn’t get in your car. 14
    This example demonstrates how accountability-based influence could become a key driver of identity and behavior in the future. In one sense, we’ll start labeling other people the same way we rate restaurants right now in a Yelp review. And if no ethical or cultural frameworks around privacy or etiquette exist, data taken out of context will become almost a daily occurrence. That’s why, in this section, we’ll also be discussing the idea of “regard,” or why it’s so important not only to put your device away when speaking to someone face-to-face but to study how our interactions are different in the real and virtual worlds. Both have their benefits, but research on the longitudinal results of Facebook and other social network usage are showing negative effects that can be minimized by unplugging the connected side of your identity once in a while.
    We’ll examine thinkers from the world of positive psychology, focusing on how action, or “flow,” as Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced “cheek-sent-me-hi-ee”) describes it in his seminal book Flow , can produce “optimal experience” in a person’s life. By identifying the activities that drive your intrinsic well-being, you can optimize and improve the quality of your happiness.
    Last, we’ll focus on the emerging economic metrics of happinessindicators as demonstrated by Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index. Other countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States, are beginning to implement subjective and quantitative elements of policy based on measuring well-being.
    I’ll point out multiple examples of how the GDP isn’t working as a measure of happiness, such as Shirley S. Wang’s article “Is Happiness Overrated?” where she cites a 2010 statistics report in Clinical Psychology Review by researchers at San Diego State University, who noted that depression and paranoia had increased in college students from 1938 to 2007 and comments, “The analysis pointed to increasing cultural emphasis in the U.S. on materialism and status, which emphasize hedonic happiness, and decreasing attention to community and meaning in life, as possible explanations.” 15 The popular book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain touches on similar trends, showing how America has moved from a culture of character to one of personality. Our need to demonstrate extrovert characteristics has made us into a nation of salespeople, focused on self-aggrandizement over the benefit of others.
    I’ll also show the connection between the digital metrics of quantified self and the Internet of Things and the economic measures of Gross National Happiness. In this way, people can better connect their personal actions with a new global paradigm of value that’s not based solely on wealth. Sharing value, done proactively, can provide individual happiness while changing the world for good.
    The measurement of life based solely on fiscal wealth, or ever-increasing production or consumption, limits who we are. We aren’t just creatures put on the earth to amass stuff or