Wearable technology – trackers, smart watches, health sensors and monitors are the chroniclers of our times, documenting our existential angst and triumphs as dispassionately, quietly and unassumingly as the proverbial fly on the wall. In this three part series, we explore the birth, the growth and the implications this tech enabled, inanimate yet intimate perspective wearables have on our lives, health and culture. We examine the doubt and hope they bring to the human experience and observe how their future rests on imbibing the core principles of meaningful design.