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I'm Noah, one of the founders. I also think lifelogging will be common in the future because it's becoming easier to record everything and the benefits of havin
by noajshu 11y ago
I'm Noah, one of the founders. I also think lifelogging will be common in the future because it's becoming easier to record everything and the benefits of having that dataset are also increasing (that's where we come in)
You're correct that lying could become obsolete. It could be sort of like the changes brought on by the Information Age, where now it's pointless to argue over truths that are the public domain (since we can just look up the fact whenever we need). It would extend that to private life.
- foobarqux 11y agoHave you seen "The Entire History of You" episode of Black Mirror?
- noajshu 11y agoIt's one of our favorites :) I don't think it would be so bad to record our lives. We would be more efficient scientists, journalists--explorers of information. We could focus on the here and now instead of taking notes.
- bduerst 11y agoOr we would be stuck focusing on the best [and the worst] of past because it's persistent, like in the episode.
- djhn 11y agoReliving memories seems like a much more powerful drug when streamed directly to your retina just as you experienced it. I'm pretty sure it requires a whole other level of nostalgia to be immersed and get lost in transcribed texts of the audio of an event. Not that I'm saying the latter is what the tech will remain like, but at least at first that's what it will probably look like.
- pugio 11y agoThis story by Ted Chiang [1] is an examination of exactly the future you describe. Forget lying to others, this could prevent our leaky, revisionist, memories from lying to ourselves. [1] https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_o...