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- fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58you die in the end... sorry for the spoiler
- hardcod3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31woaah.. scary.. did anyone see the movie "Final Cut", soon we'll have people getting metallic tattoos on their forehead to block out their black box devices.
- 1021, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30We'll still be waiting for an iPhone at that point in time.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Wow, a video of my entire life, talk about a tremendously boring video!
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -0/+22Singularity is NEAR! muahaha
- TriZz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Ummmmm, this would be great except I'm bored with life as it is. To be able to sit there and watch my boring life while I'm bored...I don't know. Seems a bit redundant.
I wonder what kind of psychological (dis)advantages this would have. I mean, we're all products/victims of our own experience. If we could "go back in time" and view things that affected us today when we are able to grasp a more mature understanding of the situation...I don't know. I think it'd be interesting to say the least. - balibones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I wish I had a movie of my life. But then again, by the time I watched it all (so far) I'd be dead and will have missed the second half. Hmmm... Maybe they show them in the afterlife. ;)
- cderry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13We could record the highlights of my life.
Anyone have a 5.25" floppy? - raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Computers could store entire life by 2026'
Well seeing as currently I don't have a life, they could probably store mine by next week. - colty045, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Finally i can watch all the falls, slips, and stupids things I've done over again goodbye pride hello Prozac
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Huh. I thought that thing was called a "wife" : P
- airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It figures. Just about the time my life will be over, they'll have a way to record soneone's entire life.
Always a day late and a dollar short... - fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12dear badave:
shut up
sincerely,
guy with sense of humor - kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I love it when people write "your too stupid".
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm going to join one of those cool rebel gangs like in Mad Max.
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8How exactly does one correlate this to a nanny state? Obviously any technological advancement can be used in creating a nanny state; the largest component will still always be how much the public allows to happen.
I'm getting pretty sick of people always leaping to "big brother" or "nanny state" whenever something new and potentially abusable surfaces.
I mean, it's not like they can't already hide cameras to record anything and everything. Small storage is not going to suddenly make surveillance easier. - Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Cut out bathroom breaks and masturbation and Dell sells some servers that might cover you right now.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah, I mean really. Even with this fancy pants technology how is Fran Drescher going to have TIME to watch everything that everyone is doing?
- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_state
- datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Imagine having a personal companion that whines at you three times a day, telling you that you are eating the wrong things and that you spent more than you earned today. The scary thing is it might be foisted on us"
Umm...already have one. It's called my conscience and common sense.. - search, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ummm.... Does anyone see a problem with this? I mean I know all they are saying is that it can be done, but the idea that it will probably WILL be done (for the safety of all Americans probably) gives me the willies.
- kensavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Final Cut, yes I saw that and thought of that movie as I read this artcile.
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So, on the most fundamental level, what have we learned here? That by 2026, data storage technology will have advanced so far that you can fit the equivalent of about 85 years worth of HD video in a cubic inch.
So what? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Imagine having a personal companion that whines at you three times a day, telling you that you are eating the wrong things and that you spent more than you earned today. The scary thing is it might be foisted on us."
its called being married. - aantix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's a project at Microsoft's Research labs that has the ambition to record all of our daily events; it's called MyLifeBits.
http://research.microsoft.com/barc/mediapresence/MyLifeBits.aspx
It's current at a state where it can record images at varying intervals, audio, emails, tracks web usage, and can index scanned in documents.
I wish it were available for public download. - somnus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Flying cars and such were more "wouldn't it be cool if..." ideas. This is based on something that is growing now and will be used as far as we can see into the future. It's not a prediction on what WILL happen, just what we will be capable of in that time.
By the way, we have been capable of flying cars for quite a while and we have supercomputer arrays the size of ballrooms. - ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4dude.
download a life. - datastorageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Like Baudrillard said, and I paraphrase, "information leads to the destruction of meaning"
- Dabellah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4According to Ray Kurzveil by 2040, when nanotechnology can be effectively introduced and used within society we will have this task performed automatically for us with the little microchips automatically connecting to the net via wifi through our bodies and downloading into servers/electronic personal safe storage boxes.
Ray Kurzveil is the man who basically invented AI, and so far just about all of his predictions I can name have come to be true in the world of computers. Kind of a scary thought to know that when I die, there will be an electronic version of myself still alive on the net (should I choose to allow it). - freff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FTA: "Researchers said governments and societies must urgently debate the implications of the huge increases in computing power and the growing mass of information being collected on individuals."
Hell, I'm as big a privacy guy as anyone, but correct me if I'm wrong, but that article was nothing but a vague and extremely speculative scare-device. All it did was vaguely refer to increases in the storage capacity of futurized computers, and tie that to the increased information available on people today. Protecting personal information is very important, but what did any of this have to do with "the advent of human black boxes" that this article refers to.
Lame non-story. - DarkDays, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think anyone's ever gonna record someone for their entire life...
- ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2how utterly, incomprehensibly creepy.
and most of all--how sad.
unfortunately, it seems we'lll have no life to speak of by then, having devoted all our time to recording and observing everything we see, having forgotten to live in the meantime. - somnus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just think how cool it would be if we could see historical moments from the visual perspective of people from the time. No more assumptions or speculation; it would be incredible!
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Except, what happens if you're Jesus Christ or Anakin Skywalker? What then?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This idea is completely miss-guided. We don't "see" the world through our eyes. We perceive the world through a complex combination of senses. You don't just "record" that. Even if you only consider vision the process is vastly unlike video and only remotely understood. I believe we may someday "record" perception. But it won't be any time soon and "playback" certainly wont be "high quality digital video." Nic Fleming should throw some quotes around the word "science" in Science Correspondent.
- Screwy1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ Dabellah
"Should I choose to allow it"
Pffft, most of the knowledge in your head is the intellectual property of someone else anyway, so you won't have a say. - ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Computers 'could store entire life by 2026'"
I was hoping that I hadn't yet completed my life by 2026..... - Gigadafud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who cares about video. just backup my memories and dump them to the Unisphere. anyone read Pandora's Star!?
- Emmsquille, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't remember the 50s. =(
- JohnyD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been waiting for this my entire life.... taking thousands of photo's to document my life takes alot of time. This will allow me to enjoy the simpler things in life.... like playing Gears of War. :)
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh, I read a good book like 10 years ago that was predicting this. "The Truth Machine." People had like watches that would record, and beam up to some server, constant video of their entire lives.
In the book, this of course had a profound effect on memory, because, with the video, you had perfect records of anything anyone ever said to you.
It also had an effect on crime. Of course you're not going to do anything if you have to cut the video feed first... Also, it's a lot harder to rob or rape someone with constant video monitoring. - TalonHawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Odd, just put that book down to play on the internet a bit.
I find it really disturbing how people in the book go through the "rejuvenations" like it's nothing, when in actuality they're killing themselves and creating a copy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You don't know the history of Prozac, I do.
-Tom Cruise - daguy33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1think of all the porn videos you could sell online with this.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We have transfer rates that fast, and even faster. It's just that YOU cannot afford one. :)
- KillerBears, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At least we'll never run out of new "Ownage Compilations" on Youtube.
- AsherW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great, a sugar cube to see how many times I've wacked off in my life time. Fantastic.
- webtron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For those of us who make a point of erasing our minds daily, this will truly destroy some of our better habits. Audience: my funny days are over.
- KYDS3K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1as long as they float and follow you around like those lil things on that Thundercats episode . . . you know the one!
- jacenat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well ... you also can say that science will NEVER be able to describe nature as a whole (*wave* to heisenberg).
of course there is a chance that future KIs (if they ever will become reality) will be able to match our brain activity to image output ... however, i still expect this process to be far from perfect as human memory is the most subject matter we can think of. everyone thinks different ... generalizing them WILL produce errors ... no doubt about it. -
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