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February 16, 2007
Lifelogging Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Researchers digitally capture the daily flow of life. Should they?
By SCOTT CARLSON
The first day I came home with a digital audio recorder hanging around my neck, along with a sign that said "Warning: This conversation may be recorded," my wife shook her head in a way that conveyed deep embarrassment. Then she said: "Have you ever heard of Nixon?"
"I fully believe that we will all be wearing this stuff all the time," said Mark T. Bolas, a visiting associate professor in the film school at the University of Southern California, as he hung a digital voice recorder around his neck when we met a few months ago. "The day before you die, your kids are going to look at you, when everybody else is doing this, and say, You mean you didn't record when you were growing up? You're just going to die and all of this is going to go away?"
Posted by mbolas at February 16, 2007 6:04 PM
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And I fully believe that portable jamming equipment will become a standard countermeasure, regardless of the legal restrictions.
On the other hand, I'm thrilled with the leveling potential that the increased publicizing of the private will have on our social mores.
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at August 9, 2007 2:35 PM
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