There are some bizarre notions in here. I used to be a big picture taker at events like concerts, and I realized that I never look at the things. Why? Because a

There are some bizarre notions in here. I used to be a big picture taker at events like concerts, and I realized that I never look at the things. Why? Because a picture can't really capture the "vibe" of being there - worse, not being present in the moment of the concert means the actual, emotionally charged, memories are diluted because I'm paying attention to my phone. Having the picture often made the memory less distinct in my mind, not more. Even with a more judicious approach to recording though, the second problem was curation. When you get home with tens or hundreds of photos, what do you do with them? In my experience, either (a) you go through them and clear out all the bad ones almost immediately (same week at least) or (b) they sit around forever gathering dust on a drive somewhere. It's not beneficial to have thousands of photos covering every insignificant event in your life (or hundreds of hours of video). Going through all that stuff is slow, boring, and tedious. Our memories are all about culling the details that don't matter and leaving behind what's important. Our brains do this automatically for us, but who is going to do this work with a massive photo collection? Would I trust AI to do it? Probably not. There's a golden mean here somewhere, where you have enough photos to spark a memory 20 years from now, but not so many that it becomes a chore to capture and curate them. Capturing every moment is definitely not it.