On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:35:34PM -0400, Edward W. Porter wrote: > > If the nano-electronics revolution delivers on its promise, in fifteen to > twenty-five years most of us should be able to afford and wear (or have > implanted) personal AGI's that can substrantially record all of our lives. > Once they have recorded audio, video, and emotional indicators of all or
You can record audio today. For $99 you can get an mp3 recorder smaller than a zippo ligher, 1 or 2gb, for 70 or 140 hours. It'll record 100MB or 200MB a day, or about 50GB/year. At that rate, by the time you fill up your $100 250GB hard drive, you'll be able to buy much much bigger hard drive. Ditto for visual, if you limit yourself to, say, 100-200 snapshots a day, triggered, e.g. by lighting changes. The new $250 slim-line cameras don't have an external moving lens, so they can (relatively) unobtrusively sit in a shirt pocket. I think they do audio too. Of no small concern is that others can record you, including your Govt. I think the NSA can afford one 250GB hard drive per man, woman and child in the US and A, given that disk drives are about 3GB per $1 now. --linas ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=60128512-0f77b9
