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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:11 PM
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Computer Scientist Tries To Document Every Second Of His Life ("Lifelogging")
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BROOKE GLADSTONE: Gordon Bell is a 72-year-old computer scientist with an eye for detail – every detail, in fact, that he's accumulated over the course of his life. A senior researcher for Microsoft, Bell is at the vanguard of a movement called "lifelogging," digitally storing every letter and photo, every phone call, email and video, every conversation, keystroke and scrap of paper, the entire minutiae of his daily routine, onto a hard drive.

He wears a camera around his neck, called a SenseCam that takes snapshots every minute of whatever may be in his path, including you if you happen to be standing there.

Gordon Bell is creating a complete virtual memory to supplement his own imperfect one, a defiant, Proustian reclamation of lost time that may be changing the very way we think about the past. But why?


GORDON BELL: Why?


BROOKE GLADSTONE: Yeah.


GORDON BELL: Why does anybody ever preserve anything? Is there any value to having a photograph of my mother at age three or so, you know, or a deed that I happen to have that would have been around in a shoebox that came from great-grandparents before 1900? So anything that, in fact, represents information, those things are all put in cyberspace, and those are the things that I think should be in cyberspace.

I go further than anybody else, which is to essentially really overtly get rid of anything I can that I can scan, and that includes coffee cups and tee shirts and mugs, you know, things like that, where I may want a memory of that.

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http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/01/05/07
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:12 PM
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1. How odd... My whole life could be summed up in 'One Second'.
Interesting contrast there.

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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:53 PM
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2. or, Flogging, for short.
:+
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:23 PM
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3. what a great piece of performance art
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 02:23 PM by pitohui
i actually think this is a cool thing to do

wonder if anyone remembers "the golden notebook" where anna decides to do this in a low tech way obviously considering the time period -- by scribbling in notebooks -- and then gets her period and has to decide whether to document that as well as the cool life events like you know sex
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The2ndWheel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:27 PM
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4. What a corporation or a government wouldn't do for that
"imperfect"

I like that word.
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