How Fitness Trackers Make Leisure More Like Work
Counting every step and calorie turns technology into a boss that’s on duty 24/7.
Frank Pasquale
Frank Pasquale is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a professor of law at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Black Box Society.
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