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Perfect memory

Collision Detection has an awesome story about Gordon Bell, a Microsoft researcher who is recording every single bit of his life, after which other Microsoft researchers analyze it.

A lot of people I know already store all the email and SMS messages they get, since it's less trouble that deleting it. It's becoming seriously feasible to store everything you see or hear, as well. Maybe in a few years everyone has their own personal cameras, and we start seeing court orders to confiscate eyewitness camera recordings... Transparent society, anyone?