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NARRATIVE CLIP 2 THE WEARABLE CAMERA FOR MOMENTS THAT MATTER

5 pointsby mkaroumiover 10 years ago

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b6over 10 years ago
This seems like cool tech, and people will surely get some good out of it.<p>But it&#x27;s kind of in the danger zone that Buddhists warn us about: that the vast majority of people are ghosts, always thinking about the past, or planning for the future, but not connecting with the present moment.<p>To me, a related problem is one where people are at some event, feeling self-conscious, unable to be themselves, because it&#x27;s being recorded. And it&#x27;s all so that some unspecified person, at some unspecified point in the future, can see what happened. But probably, nobody will ever actually look at the recording. And if they did, it&#x27;ll necessarily be a tinny, low-resolution recording ... of uncomfortable people not being themselves ... because they were being recorded. Degrading the present, for some future thing that may never materialize.<p>I&#x27;m not saying this product pushes us further in that direction. I see they actually seem to be trying to free up the mind of the person doing the recording, and be unobtrusive. I think that&#x27;s good. Maybe it will be fine, and we just need to make the transition to a world where we take it for granted that everything is being recorded. That might be OK, I don&#x27;t know. It&#x27;s just that sometimes technology seems to help build a kind of hall of mirrors that our brains find addictive. It&#x27;s something we should keep an eye on.