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I have young children and my wife frequently has her phone out to take photos & videos of them - trips to the zoo, ballet practice, "oh do that cute thing you just did again".

What I'd really want is to go back to a world where we just don't have the opportunity and expectation to record so much. But that's not going to happen. And a lot of it really does have immense value for us. Our parents live on the other side of the country and this (plus FaceTime) is the main way they get to see their grandchildren grow up.

With that in mind, I would love a set of glasses that record what we're seeing on a short buffer and let us tap to save whenever something interesting/significant happens. No more phone out worried that we'll miss a big moment.

I'd really prefer to see someone with some ethical sense try to tackle this in a way that doesn't send us directly into this world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

I don't know who that would be, but it's certainly not Facebook.




Tap to save ... surely it monitors your heart and blink rates and takes photos video at 'important' moments. Filtered and edited by an AI when it's uploaded then a day review is presented to you and emotion-sampling again highlights the best images to keep in the monthly pick-reel.

We probably overwrite a lot of great memories with the slightly shittier version of what actually happened marred by the distraction of 'I must record this'.

Memories aren't what they used to be.


I think Google Clips was sort of like that:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...




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