So, where do we go from blogging and tweeting? Ask Gordon Bell and he’ll tell you lifelogging, which is essentially digitizing one’s entire life experience and storing it in a massive searchable database that functions as a surrogate brain.
Bell, a 75-year-old computer scientist who worked for Digital Equipment Corporation for many years developing early programmed data processors and is currently working as a researcher for Microsoft, has been lifelogging for the past nine years. In that time he has logged every minutiae of his daily life, scanning and saving documents collected over his 50-year career — more than 60,000 photos, 100,000 websites and 122,000 emails. He lives in a paperless world in which he can instantly call up an inspired note he jotted down 30 years ago.
