Journal rthille's Journal: What would you record? 1
I've thought about the increasing amount of data I'm amassing over time about my life: CC receipts, GPS way-points, photos, etc. If you could wear or have a device implanted, and you could "magically" completely control who had access to the data, what data would you choose to record about yourself and your surroundings?
A basic list to start:
GPS location (would additionally need inertial for underground/water/inside)
Body Temperature and other physical/medical stats
Calories consumed/expended
Other humans/animals nearby
Clothing worn
Images of surroundings
Thoughts?
Eventually, most/all of this would be possible to record. What would you _want_ recorded? What would you most be afraid of others having access to?
Some interesting comments on the subject (Score:2)
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 9/27/2024240 [slashdot.org]
The trouble is, I can see the storage being filled with a lot of information, only a small amount of which would be useful. This would require some pretty good indexing/searching facilities.
Our brains are already pretty good at storing the important information and discarding the rest - anything which we identify as important but which the brain would discard (like a phone number, for example) we already have devices to record th