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"Science fiction represents the modern heresy and the cutting edge of speculative imagination as it grapples with Mysterious Time---linear or non-linear time."
- Frank Herbert
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| Life Recorder | ||
| Record the details of your life. |
Very early reference to the idea of a life recorder, a device that automatically records pictures and sounds from daily life.
| "I meet so many people that I carry a pocket recorder and a lapel-camera just so I can recall them all…" |
| Technovelgy from The Dream Master (He Who Shapes),
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace Books in 1966 Additional resources -
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This idea precedes the LifeLog project by about forty years; it was a DARPA notion to bring together relevant data from the life of an individual and put it in one place. You might also recall the SenseCam project pioneered by Microsoft in 2004. Take a look at a more science-fictional take on this idea in the lifelog from Halting State and don't forget the lifebox from Soft Death (1986) by Rudy Rucker.
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- Ubiquiti FrontRow Camera Records Your Life
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