Sorry I can't make it. I hope to see someones blog on the lecture.

a comment I was thinking about during the presentation tonight:

is keeping track of every moment of your life on video worth it?

Personally, I think that the whole lifelog thing is pretty cool, but I think that it can be, and maybe should be, selective -- more like home movies and less like total chronicle of life where every moment can be accessed by somebody sometime. Lots of things pointing me in this direction, but the most important I can think of is the transparency thing. Unless cameras are literally embedded in your eye or head or something, people are always going to be aware they are recording something. What would this do to quality of life? Would recording become 2nd nature so that nobody would notice they were even doing it anymore? maybe some people would, but it brings up this issue for me of: shouldn't people be living, focused on whatever moment they are currently living in instead of constantly documenting their "experience". I have perhaps more intelligent thoughts on this matter, but now's not the time. There just seems to be something fundamentally different with recording / documenting all aspects of one's life and taking more circumscribed POV videos to create smaller personal narratives --

I don't say these things because I'm down on the whole thing -- in fact, I think all this lifelog stuff is really cool, and should get more so with better, smaller tech. Just trying to be skeptical, and think about the potential quality of life issues here. Then again, maybe I'm just being the guy that wants to remember how things like cell phones fundamentally shifted the way we live, and maybe how we sacrificed a lot to be connected with people all the time.

I agree with you Will, recording life in its totality is both excessive and intrusive. I love Lifelogging, but there is something to be said about personal space/time. Like you said, the mobile phone device has really altered our way of living, what would happen to our lives if the we all had autonomous and seemingly non-intrusive lifelog cameras embedded on our being? While you could create some incredible documentary work, and artwork, on a personal level, when this becomes so commonplace that we have to worry about the “eye” on all faces recording every action, it becomes very scary. It’s a strange and blurry line. It easily spawns various distopian thoughts. But I ask how could we fit this non-intrusive lifelog recording into our lives without harm to privacy?

yes. i have only one question: are we trying to play the God's role? if we are, be very cautious of that.

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