2024-11-05T18:12:21-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/104803779/aftershock-3-brains-and-the-city Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-07-24T10:30:00-04:00 >2020-12-09T10:46:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/j6/j6pdgvke18am89pv.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Navel-gazing has become a data-driven sport. We are awash in technology that allows us to track our own activities, and then take responsibility for that scrutiny, holding us accountable for calories consumed or credit cards exhausted. The quantified-self movement can be a sandstorm of uselessness, or it can sublimate into constructive action. If we try to focus our navel-gaze to better understand ourselves, it seems imminent that such scrutiny will next focus on the brain.</p>