Challenging piece on the rights to life and privacy of NBA players in balnce to the expanding fields of biological research and biometric enhancement. From the article: Weve been inundated with all these companies coming up with different things to look at and test, says Gregg Farnam, longtime Timberwolves trainer and the chairman of the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association. Its the explosion of data and data collection. But what might come as a surprise is how significant that explosion has been, and how far its blast radius might soon reach. The literary specter haunting sports burgeoning Information Age is no longer Michael Lewis and Moneyball but George Orwell and 1984.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:11:18 +0000