{"id":937,"date":"2014-06-12T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=937"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:27:50","slug":"life-logging-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/life-logging-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-logging!  This is a job for &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/life-logging-job\/\" data-text=\"Life-logging!%2520This is a job for &#038;%238230;.\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p><em style=\"font-style: italic; color: #2b2b2b;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8230;Wearable Technology<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">! \u00a0When I wrote a few days ago about the<a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=859\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=859\" target=\"_blank\">evolution of wearable technology<\/a><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">I wondered whether a particular need inspired the technology or if \u00a0it was the rise of the technology that manifested the need. \u00a0And now I have learned of another use for wearable technology: life-logging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">I have never heard of life-logging, and t<\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">he fact that I am only now learning about it is a bit of a surprise to me. \u00a0Though\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">I&#8217;m no techie, I don&#8217;t live in a cave either. \u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m in denial about my cave dwelling. \u00a0No matter. \u00a0But when I read\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #24890d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/review\/528076\/my-life-logged\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rachel Metz&#8217;s review of 2 life-logging devices in the MIT Technology Review,<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">\u00a0I learned that certain &#8220;data fanatics and academics&#8221; have been life-logging since as early as 1994. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">This post isn&#8217;t so much about the performance or practicality of the devices &#8211; basically small wearable cameras. \u00a0If you want that information I suggest you read Ms. Metz&#8217;s review\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #24890d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/review\/528076\/my-life-logged\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">. \u00a0This is<\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">\u00a0more about the actual activity of life-logging; \u00a0As in what is it and why do it? \u00a0Fortunately for me, Ms. Metz provides the needed background in her review. \u00a0 \u00a0Life logging is precisely what it sounds like: \u00a0logging chronologically, in real time, the events which you area a party to that make up your life, and compiling or cataloging the information into an archive. To achieve this, one wears a device clipped to the clothing or around one&#8217;s neck that continually records images. \u00a0Not a video recording, but still shots taken at intervals (like the old school security cameras), I suppose because bandwith and storage isn&#8217;t (yet) free so some conservation of data is required. \u00a0 The author reviews two such devices, the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #24890d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.autographer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Autographer<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">\u00a0and the \u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #24890d;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getnarrative.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Narrative<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">That takes care of the &#8220;how&#8221;, now on to the &#8220;why?&#8221; \u00a0In 1998 one of the early adopters, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, started to collect as much digital information about his life as he could. \u00a0His goal? \u00a0To create a searchable archive of his memories. \u00a0If you think about it, people have been creating archives of their memories to some extent for a long time already. \u00a0How many have kept diaries? \u00a0Or compiled photos of special events into albums &#8211; albums which are now replaced by digital photo archives both online and off. \u00a0Camera phones have become ubiquitous and are now readily at hand to record any daily events whether momentous or mundane. \u00a0The progression seems logical &#8211; from once daily written records, to photographic records of special occasions, to photographic records of many daily events to life-logging: photographic records of\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-style: italic; color: #2b2b2b;\">all<\/em><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">\u00a0life&#8217;s events &#8211; compiled into a searchable archive. \u00a0So we don&#8217;t forget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">To me, this describes the process of creating a substitute memory &#8211; one that doesn&#8217;t forget or distort the way our organic memories do. \u00a0This is a clinical recording of the data that makes up an individual&#8217;s life experiences (assuming narration or dialog could be added). \u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-style: italic; color: #2b2b2b;\">One that will survive once our organic beings cease to exist<\/em><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">. \u00a0And it could readily be imagined that in some future time the use of this technology might become as common as smartphone use has become today and that more and more people will compile such archives. \u00a0Could or would these archives then be compiled into a super archive &#8211; the collected memories of humanity? \u00a0And if so would that be a good thing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">What effects might this have on us a human beings? \u00a0Do we even understand what our memories mean to us? \u00a0It is a fact that our memories of events change over time &#8211; some traumantic events we forget altogether. \u00a0Is there a purpose to this we don&#8217;t understand that may be sidestepped by life-logging? \u00a0I am on the record as being skeptical of new technology, though history has also shown that I eventually adopt and conform. \u00a0History has also shown that technology often evolves from our servant to become our master; and that if technology can be abused, it will be abused. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b2b2b;\">So as technology evolves, so do humans evolve. \u00a0We adapt to new technologies and increasingly assimilate them into our very being. \u00a0In my opinion, we should tread lightly and thoughtfully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cross Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bZJI-8T\" target=\"_blank\">Men Out Of Work Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;Wearable Technology! \u00a0When I wrote a few days ago about the\u00a0evolution of wearable technology,\u00a0I wondered whether a particular need inspired the technology or if \u00a0it was the rise of the technology that manifested the need. \u00a0And now I have learned of another use for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}