NPR's On the Media did an interview with Gordon Bell, a computer scientist at Microsoft.  Bell is a pioneer in the practice of lifelogging, chronicling every moment of his life with a computer program called MyLifeBits.  Every moment means everything, including "articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, voice recordings, ... phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio."  At first glance, it seems pretty mundane to digitally store every detail of your life.  I mean honestly, how many "things" that happen in a day are even worth storing?  But it becomes more useful when you think about the people you meet, the conversations you have, the random things you see.  You'd never really need to remember anything again.  All it would come down to is a method of organization or tagging.  And of course some sort of method of searching.  I touched on this a little in my post about photography.  It would be cool to be able to store any of a million tiny details that happen in the course of a day and to be able to go back to them to find out what you said to whom and where it happened. 

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