IBM Research's Personal Memory Organizer

Hi,

I came across this video of what is said to be an IBM technology that will be available in mobile phones and PDAs.

IBM Research's Personal Memory Organizer, codenamed PENSIEVE, can help organize your memory and access information that otherwise might get lost. This technology uses images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help people recall names, faces, conversations and other important information.

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Of course this sort of improved information technology sounds great, really futuristic and impressive. The reason I wanted to mention the video in ATS, though, is I came to think that the degree of completeness in personal information overview suggested from the video might definitely raise some privacy concerns. Each user would seem to basically be logging his life in electronic form. "Self-veillance"?... Or is that thought a bit too ATS? :-)

Optimist

Its a big step to commercial memory augmentation. Its pretty cool except for the possible big brother aspect to it.