Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist turned computer scientist, has a new project: charting his every bodily function in minute detail. What he's discovering may be the future of health care.
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr’s quest to quantify everything about his health led him to a startling discovery, an unusual partnership with his doctor, and more control over his life.
The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ''The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?''