Sure, but would it remember to forget?

I guess it's good that the Darpa Lifelog project was quietly cancelled as this Wired News article, Wired News: Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project notes.

Lifelog's intent was to gather everything a person says (emails, phone calls, etc.) and does (air tickets purchased, television watched, movies seen, meetings taken, etc.) into a single data directory. The rationale is that:

the all-encompassing diary could have turned into a near-perfect digital memory, giving its users computerized assistants with an almost flawless recall of what they had done in the past.

Can you say "Big Brother's watching"?

Posted by Grayson at February 4, 2004 12:53 PM