If you haven't seen it, if i can remember, it's about a guy that is actually living his life in a movie. Everything he does from going to the bathroom to his most intimate relations are filmed and people watch it outside of his world. Everyone in his world is playing along in the movie as actors, yet he doesn't know this. He thinks it's his real life. He eventually starts to realize that some things are just not normal and figures out that his life has been a movie.
How would you like it if your whole entire life, or at least parts of your life, were recorded and filmed? This means that the rest of the world could eventually look you up and see your whole, recorded life.
Well all your dreams can come true with Gordon Bell's new and inventive SenseCam. Bell invented this device to hang around his neck so that he could recored and picture everything in his life, in photo form, that he wanted. He tried it himself and would save everything from restaurant receipts(take photos of them), to bill and medical records, and daily life adventures. In the article, a reporter talks to him and asks him questions about how he uses it and what kind of effects this could bring to our society if everyone used it in the future. The SenseCam's overall purpose it to record all of these things so that you can look them later to remind yourself or show other people your past and life. After recording everything you upload it to PDF form on your computer and it is saved for ever! So 30 years down the road, you could, or anyone could, look at it again.
I think this device is very interesting but could cause a lot of problems in the future. It may be very helpful for some people to have this on an everyday basis if they have problems remembering things, or are older. You could look at it like a movie later on and see the things you used to do or even things to remind you about, like a grocery list. With this device you do have the power to use it when you please or not. So it's not exactly recording every motion and thing you do unless you want it to.
What do you think? Do you think you would want a device like this to record your life?
no thank you... however i do love the truman show!
ReplyDeleteCertainly not. A lot of people already record videos with their phone and expose their life on facebook and with the tag option also show others lives. This camera in bad hands or unethical hands could violate many privacy rights. What will stop a person from recording anyone and share it online.
ReplyDeleteI like Ed TV better, but i agree, cameras in phones are already serving basically the same purpose for things like grocery lists, documentation for insurance claims, etc.
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