Gideon, you’re referring to Microsoft’s SenseCam, which David Pescovitz wrote about on TheFeature – http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/100478.html

1) insight from jan chipchase (fellow nokian) at http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2005/10/vanity_reflecte_1.html

2) check out the movie ‘the final cut’. shallow movie, but deep implications (i would love to do a remake or write a book based on the movie).

3) gotta mention lifeblog again (and, no, it’s not my product anymore, but i do work for nokia)

Hi Russell, I’ve been multitasking a bit too much today – sorry about the mixup.

Thanks for the post Carlo

BTW – didn’t Microsoft release a device like a pendant or necklace w/ a camera inside that snaps photos throughout your day?

I believe people are starting to use the term, “Life Caching” to describe this self digitizing of one’s life.

hmm… make something like that with bluetooth, ahve it talk to your mobile, and folks can publish their lives online in near realtime with associative GPS coords to display their path through life. At the end of the year, login to the system, kick up the time rate, and watch your path and photos unfold, showing you the last year of your life.

All very possible today!

Russell

I was watching a band do a show that was all Led Zep tunes and watched a guy recording a video and send it off to a friend… and this was a cover band

Your post reminds me of all the youth today that are growing up with their whole lives on video. Their birth, every major event, graduation, etc. I wonder what will become of all that footage – will people eventually get into editing their lives into a movie to post online?

>>>Very spooky and starts leading to thoughts about “What it is to be human” and other such deep stuff

Take a look at the writings by Ray Kurzweil – he has a new book out too. He’s big on the topics of “mind uploading” – “transhumanism” – the “Singularity” and the incredible exponential technology curve that we are riding upon.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/

And yes, we are just at the begining, and the greatest challenge is just around the corner.

People don’t realize what the eponential curve is or what it will mean when we are further along it. The best way to explain it to people, is that there have been significant events and advancements thoughout our history that have shaped the world. If you plot those points on a timeline, you’ll see that the frequencey increases over time. Now overlay this idea with the exponential growth curve of technology, and you’ll see an increase in “significant” events to the point that every day something will be announced that will be considered significant to humanity. This would then extend to every hour, every minute…

And the question is, can humans survive that? Can we assimilate, change and adjust to such a dynamic world? Chances are, we’re going to need an upgrade ourselves to handle the future.

cool post Russell, thanks

Actually, I read an article a while ago (can’t remember where) and they asked various scientists to extrapolate what the world would be like, based on our current knowledge and progress. In other words, not sci-fi, but genuine predictions.

One of the forecasts would be that by the end of the century, all a person’s thoughts and experiences (including a film from their point of view captured by a micro-camera in their eyebrow) would be digitised. If such a thing were available today, you could experience say, your grandfather’s life in WW2, as an example.

Also as the thought processes were digitised too, you could effectively ask him a question and he could answer it, even if he’s never been asked that in his real life.

Very spooky and starts leading to thoughts about “What it is to be human” and other such deep stuff.

Personally, I think people will resist going quite this far, but it looks as if it’s going to be perfectly possible.

Many people make the mistake that we’re somehow at the end of history. Stuff like this reminds us that we’re somewhere in the middle and may even be still at the beginning.

Russell