Mena really brought memories to the fore. She stated that she wished she had a record of everything that had happened in the first twenty-seven yearas of her life like she has since she first started weblogging. She revealed that she takes a picture of herself every day as a hook to hang her memories around – saying that she could see immediately her mood and her background and her surroundings and very quickly get a sense of what she was feeling at that precise moment, even years after the fact…
This is the kind of thing that really floats my boat – I’ve always wanted to keep a journal, but never could. I think about all the fuzzy memories I have now, things I would love to remember but just aren’t really there, and wish that there was some way for me to get back to them.
How long will it be until theres a chip behind our ears that broadcasts and records everything we see, hear, do, and think? And what intermediate technological steps will there be before we get that advanced?
Coates’ full notes from the session.