Max Hancock Max Hancock is a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He studies U.S. history and the history of capitalism.

Model Employees | The Dawn of Digital Twins

Max Hancock

The H.R. software provider syd™ may ask you to submit your spit. But even if you decline to supply a saliva sample, it will still request your dietary and financial information. All this, plus your environmental data (like your home address and the temperature outside), is used to create a digital copy of you, which syd™ delivers to your boss, who can then use it to track your “Life Quality,”...