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05/21/2001 Archived Entry: "Total recording"

Interesting link from Slashdot about a wristwatch that can record everything you hear, 24 hours of the day. Naturally (and justifiably) people were up in arms over the whole privacy aspects but from my point of view, something like that wristwatch would be incredibly useful; imagine the snippets of conversation or the random thoughts that you have during the day that could be recorded by this watch.

And of course it wouldn't be too much of a difficulty to extend this to total-recording glasses, that record everything you see. This isn't an original idea, people have thought about these technologies for years, but we're finally getting to the stage where they're commercially feasible. As a transparency advocate I'm looking forward to seeing these glasses on everyone but I'm more than aware that there are huge obstacles in the way of their successful implementation. Talk about this in the forum discussion thread (incidentally, the forum has been getting more posts recently, it might be worth your while having a look around).

There's been a bit of a brouhaha online about a 19 year old girl who recorded her struggle against cancer in a weblog. She died a few days ago and since then it was discovered that she was completely fictional. It's very interesting how people have reacted to it, both individually and as a community.