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MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.
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thenewgreen · 4881 days ago · link ·
Yeah, I've always enjoyed this talk too and have been envious of his data, in a personal sense. Wouldn't it be great to have such archives of your child's development?
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Well you know guys... it's a thing to have the data for personal use, only you no matter what! Another thing then is the possibility of a government or corporation to use something like this.
With all the debate going around these days about personal data being used for different purposes, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, social networks I would be skeptic about the idea. I think it's a very interesting idea and it should be funded for researching purposes only but in no way for everyday use, at least for the moment...
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