A device the size of a sugar cube will be able to record and store high resolution video footage of every second of a human life within two decades.
Prof Nigel Shadbolt, president of the British Computer Society and professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton, said: "In 20 years' time it will be possible to record high quality digital video of an entire lifetime of human memories. It's not a question of whether it will happen; it's already happening."
Prof Nigel Shadbolt, president of the British Computer Society and professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton, said: "In 20 years' time it will be possible to record high quality digital video of an entire lifetime of human memories. It's not a question of whether it will happen; it's already happening."
Some fear that the advent of "human black boxes" combined with the extension of medical, financial and other digital records will lead to loss of privacy and a dramatic expansion of the nanny state.
Others highlight positive advances in medicine, education, crime prevention and the way history will be recorded.
2 comments:
Interesting...I presume they're referring to memory capacity. But how exactly will the 'video' be recorded? (and from what perspective? And what about later editing and spin doctoring?)
Like any technological advance, it opens up a wealth of opportunities and a pandora's box of possible (read likely) misuses...
I look upon predictions like this as more an extention of Mohe's law which states that every five years computer power will double. Computer power is not just number crunching but memory density and storage and hence the ability to "record" a person's complete life, second by second. More of meaning video, I think it's a very literal "recording"
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