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Man Creates e-Memory (CNN)
But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences. Microsoft is working on a SenseCam that would hang around a person’s neck and automatically capture every detail of life in photo form. Bell has given that a whirl. He also saves everything — from restaurant receipts (he take pictures of them) to correspondence, bills and medical records. He makes PDF files out of every Web page he views.
In sum, this mountain of data — more than 350 gigabytes worth, not including the streaming audio and video — is a replica of Bell’s biological memory. It’s actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized “e-memory” never forgets. It’s like having a multimedia transcript of your life.
By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable. Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the “cloud” of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable. No one will have to fret about storing the details of their lives in their heads anymore. We’ll have computers for that. And this revolution will “change what it means to be human,” he writes. (more…)
The funny thing about this is that many people are already doing this with current technologies. Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and other online social media outlets are hotbeds of people who feel the need to share their everyday experiences with the rest of the world. Some folks just go too far with all of this.
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Teacher goes off on student (WARNING! Contains some strong language)
Many of these public school teachers are under a lot of pressure to deal with kids who care less about life. At the same time they have to deal with parents who oftentimes don’t care and a school system that oftentimes pay them (the teachers) to be docile. That is what I know. What I don’t know is what prompted the teacher’s outburst. Barring some of the language he used, he was on point. This is EXACTLY why many urban teachers wash out after being in the system for just a few years. This is also why I’m against the silly notion of pumping urban public schools with Black male teachers under relaxed qualifications. That is a recipe for greater failure.
Hmmmm….
Old people across America yell at their local politicians at town hall meetings because they disagree with the President on health care, and it is compared to a full blown racial riot. G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh, PA riot consisting of rubber bullets being fired on them, rock throwing, broken windows, 70 arrests, canisters of pepper spray, damages to local businesses and armchair critics across the net breath out a collective “ho-hum” and flip the channel–and their logic.
Pittsburgh braces for more clashes at G-20 summit
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