A Victorian parlour, c1898. Courtesy Getty Images Our cursed age of self-monitoring and optimisation didn’t start with big tech: as so often, the Victorians are to blame By Elena Mary – is a postdoctoral associate member in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford in the UK. She is a historian of culture, class and the female body in modern Britain. Ilook at my Fitbit and note despondently that I have done only 2,247 steps today. I haven’t met my ‘hydration goal’ or crossed everything off my to-do list. I didn’t think of three things I was grateful for … Continue reading ‘I awoke at ½ past 7’