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Amanda Knox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

improve them in some way so as I was using flow you know not only did it present me this idealized cute able-bodied fetus it was feeding me information about what I ought to do the actions I should take the things that I should eat in order to ensure that I had this ideal pregnancy and

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

As soon as I had an abnormal ultrasound and my pregnancy was recategorized as high risk, I started searching for those terms within Flo's message boards. And they said, I'm sorry, please try searching for something else. And so I felt like even in this subtle way that the app was programmed, I was being told that like my pregnancy had no space in that community.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

As soon as I had an abnormal ultrasound and my pregnancy was recategorized as high risk, I started searching for those terms within Flo's message boards. And they said, I'm sorry, please try searching for something else. And so I felt like even in this subtle way that the app was programmed, I was being told that like my pregnancy had no space in that community.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

As soon as I had an abnormal ultrasound and my pregnancy was recategorized as high risk, I started searching for those terms within Flo's message boards. And they said, I'm sorry, please try searching for something else. And so I felt like even in this subtle way that the app was programmed, I was being told that like my pregnancy had no space in that community.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

I think so. I had books too. And, you know, the first difference I noticed is that I wasn't carrying this like big pregnancy book everywhere I went. But my phone was always there. And so even if I did not intend to bring my pregnancy app with me, it was there constantly. And so I found myself looking at it again and again. Also, a book is a set document.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

I think so. I had books too. And, you know, the first difference I noticed is that I wasn't carrying this like big pregnancy book everywhere I went. But my phone was always there. And so even if I did not intend to bring my pregnancy app with me, it was there constantly. And so I found myself looking at it again and again. Also, a book is a set document.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

I think so. I had books too. And, you know, the first difference I noticed is that I wasn't carrying this like big pregnancy book everywhere I went. But my phone was always there. And so even if I did not intend to bring my pregnancy app with me, it was there constantly. And so I found myself looking at it again and again. Also, a book is a set document.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

It covers a limited number of scenarios, and there's like a real limitation to that. But it also means that it can't be sort of like tweaked and engineered so that it serves you some seemingly new piece of information like every day or every few hours. I found myself looking at flow during my pregnancy like 10 times a day, even though I think this is so sick.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

It covers a limited number of scenarios, and there's like a real limitation to that. But it also means that it can't be sort of like tweaked and engineered so that it serves you some seemingly new piece of information like every day or every few hours. I found myself looking at flow during my pregnancy like 10 times a day, even though I think this is so sick.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

It covers a limited number of scenarios, and there's like a real limitation to that. But it also means that it can't be sort of like tweaked and engineered so that it serves you some seemingly new piece of information like every day or every few hours. I found myself looking at flow during my pregnancy like 10 times a day, even though I think this is so sick.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

But I was not looking to flow for actual advice or real information. I wasn't taking that information and changing my diet. or my movements, I think I was looking for reassurance that I was doing okay. And so even if I wasn't doing exactly what this app had said, I wasn't missing something major. And there was someone, it really felt like, along with me who was keeping track.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

But I was not looking to flow for actual advice or real information. I wasn't taking that information and changing my diet. or my movements, I think I was looking for reassurance that I was doing okay. And so even if I wasn't doing exactly what this app had said, I wasn't missing something major. And there was someone, it really felt like, along with me who was keeping track.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

But I was not looking to flow for actual advice or real information. I wasn't taking that information and changing my diet. or my movements, I think I was looking for reassurance that I was doing okay. And so even if I wasn't doing exactly what this app had said, I wasn't missing something major. And there was someone, it really felt like, along with me who was keeping track.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

And so there became this real intimacy to our pseudo-relationship that I didn't have with, like, an informational pregnancy book.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

And so there became this real intimacy to our pseudo-relationship that I didn't have with, like, an informational pregnancy book.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

And so there became this real intimacy to our pseudo-relationship that I didn't have with, like, an informational pregnancy book.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

You know, I think after the particular circumstances of my pregnancy, I became really interested in prenatal testing and how it was advancing. And interested in the fact that it was so, it seemed like such an exciting category for all of the male tech leaders that we know so much about now.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

You know, I think after the particular circumstances of my pregnancy, I became really interested in prenatal testing and how it was advancing. And interested in the fact that it was so, it seemed like such an exciting category for all of the male tech leaders that we know so much about now.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

You know, I think after the particular circumstances of my pregnancy, I became really interested in prenatal testing and how it was advancing. And interested in the fact that it was so, it seemed like such an exciting category for all of the male tech leaders that we know so much about now.

Fresh Air
Having A Child In The Digital Age

And it was only through reading about them a little bit that I came to understand that this new ascendant technology that offers what they call polygenic analysis of embryos. So, you know, different outlets promise to find different characteristics, but they're offering everything from screening that predicts an increase in IQ points, that screens for hereditary cancers, all of this stuff.