Lifelogging is awesome.

Lifelogging is nothing more than the automatic capture and retention of what happens in one’s life. This can be accomplished by wearing body cameras to automatically shoot pictures, using sensors to capture biometric data to monitor your location, activity and physical state, or saving every communication you send or receive.

The purpose of lifelogging with photos is, quite literally, to use technology to give ourselves a photographic memory. The pictures are prosthetic memory. We’re outsourcing part of the job of remembering to cameras and computer storage devices. We’re massively upgrading our capacity to remember our own lives and experiences and correcting for the human flaw of false memory.

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