Recording your entire life is now feasible

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Full-motion, audio movies can be recorded at reasonable quality at 10 megabytes per second minute. there are 1440 minutes in a day, so that’s about 15 gigabytes a day (rounding up), or about 5 terabytes a year.

According to pricewatch.com, a terabyte harddrive can be purchased for about $100, so that’s $500 a year. We double the storage costs to take into account redundancy or whatever, and that’s $1000 a year, or about $85 a month. That’s a bit high, but affordable to at least some of the middle class.

Whoa, what a crazy future we live in.

Wow, that would be the most boring video ever. Most people lead pretty boring lives, and there’s stuff no one wants to see, like the time you got salmonella.

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Check out The Final Cut.

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Yes, but when would you watch it?

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But what about the first minute?

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You’ll probably be interested in this 2005 article on Gordon Bell and the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research.

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If you watched reruns, would you create a temporal causality loop that would end Civilization As We Know It?

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And what about picture-in-picture?

That would be the way to watch it, though.

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:smack: I meant “per minute”.

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Whoa, that made me think of a weird loop you could intentionally get yourself in. First, watch the last minute of your life. Then, watch that last minute. Then, that last minute. The video of your life will be you watching television watching television watching television, nested arbitrarily deep.

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What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? - Now. You’re looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. - What happened to then? - We passed then. - When? - Just now. We’re at now now. - Go back to then. - When? - Now. - Now? - Now. - I can’t. - Why? - We missed it. - When? - Just now. - When will then be now? - Soon. - How soon?

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