The latest edition of The Future Human podcast is Smart Self, exploring the booming intersection between wearable technology and the self-improvement industry.

Following Moore’s Law, the power of computer chips has doubled every 18 months or so for the past 30 years, and this pattern has seen computing devices grow ever more personal: the PC, the laptop, the smartphone and now super personal smart devices that we wear on our bodies. Consequently, the line between our physical and virtual existence is blurring like never before, as a new wave of devices invite us to treat our bodies and minds like manipulable software.

But does wearable tech seek data for data’s sake? Does ‘quantifying our self’ harness untapped human potential that can make us smarter and better, or merely make our lives increasingly public and incoherent? And can an algorithm ever trump human intuition?

Future Human’s founder Jack Gwilym Roberts hosts a conversation with three special guests: Marcus Codrington-Fernandez, a leading player in the British wearable health tech company Fitbug, and Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella of the technology-augmented fashion house CuteCircuit. We’re also joined by Future Human’s very own Ben Beaumont-Thomas.

Together, they discuss how wearable devices can enhance our mood and help us be more creative and decisive, question how we will adapt and incorporate the emerging influx of data streams that analyse our physical and mental activities, and project scenarios for a new culture of anti-private, public lifestyles.

You can download the Smart Self podcast at Soundcloud or iTunes, where you can also catch up on some of our previous episodes.