In this week’s reads: Facebook wants to get into your car, Nike tracks your heartbeats, Apple’s iBook Author shakes the bookshelves, and William Gibson makes a not-unusual cameo appearance.

Tracking our behaviors and our body data means tracking the most sensitive kind of data. This is the very thing the privacy debate is about: Health and location data. So let’s think about this.

If there’s one area where we can really see body tracking taking off, it’s medical and lifestyle. There’s hardly a week where no new service or app is launched, or a new self-tracking hardware shipped.

From data to better living. This is the first article in our series on the Quantified Self.

A series of articles to give you an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of the Quantified Self and how we think this trend will change work, technology and society.

A week packed with Next Conference curation, a panel on the future of education, a Third Wave retreat, a blog series on the Quantified Self and some updates on Cognitive Cities.