Gordon Bell,, a reseracher at Microsoft is working on a "digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions of nearly everything in his life." The diary will be stored on a blackberry like device that he carries with him at all times and will help him recall everything from events to conversations that he's experienced.
The article Digital age may bring total recall in future is from the tech section of CNN.com.
2 comments:
LLB,
I couldn't have said it better myself. My initial thoughts are represented within your final thought. All of your thoughts are right there though. I am ready to give up on people always making life easier. What happened to the good ole' days when you actually had to think about something. I am surprised someone from MIT would come up with this sort of foolishness…I would like to see where that individual would be today if they never had to recall historical data or theoretical information on their own, can you say Deliverance? (Stereotype in regards to mental capacity.)
I am personally one person that truly believes in the old ways to do things, even if I don't always follow that philosophy. I believe in exercise instead of pills. I believe in practice makes perfect and training both physically and mentally. After all, that is why we go to school.
Stop doing something for any length of time and that part of your body essentially starts going into atrophy. With these "memory devices" I can't help but feel our brains would begin to evolve to the size of a peanut from lack of use. Attention spans would decrease even more than they already have and intellectual thoughts would cease altogether. How does that saying go...oh I can't remember...what was it again…oh yah, "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
bstemper
Necessity is the mother of all invention. That being said, this technology could take away from actually living life. People will be so focused on the technology that they miss the world around him. We are a social being, and we need technology that supports that, not detracts from that.
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