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kleinbl00  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lifelogging: You and Me (and an off-topic question at the end)

They still don't know what to do with it. It was a GoPro before there were GoPros, a dashcam before dashcams. The issue is that scientists said "we can record every minute of your life - now how do we make people want to do that?" rather than finding a problem and proposing a solution.

I'm not opposed to giving memory aids to Alzheimer's sufferers but Microsoft's study had an N of 1 and was conducted against a diary. That the study was done ten years ago and didn't really lead to much further research is telling, I think; basically, Microsoft demonstrated that making an Alzheimer's patient review an hour-long event for an hour every two days keeps that event in short term memory for as long as the patient is reviewing the photos.