The Moore’s law of storage has interesting consequences for the lifestreaming concept (especially of the MyLifeBits variety). The hypothesis is that we’ll have 10TB flash sticks in twenty years (via Jim Rossignol’s blog):
10Tb is an interesting number. That’s a megabit for every second in a year — there are roughly 10 million seconds per year. That’s enough to store a live DivX video stream — compressed a lot relative to a DVD, but the same overall resolution — of everything I look at for a year, including time I spend sleeping, or in the bathroom.
How will this new transition toward the cyborg self alter us? Relying less on long term memory and more on queries in the life-database could have consequences much more dire than those of calculators and word-processors with spell-checking have already had.
[…] Are we weaker because the misuse of memory itself has hampered our cognitive abilities? I think the lifestreaming generation will be as much a cognitive as it is a social experimentTags: lifestreaming, search, […]
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