documentation

when you look on facebook, it is amazing how many photos are up there. i just looked at a facebook recruiting pamphlet (yes facebook recruits at mit for software engineers) that claims that 1 billion photos are uploaded to facebook each month. and i bet that the number is only increasing. which suggests to me that in fact, more and more of our lives are being documented. whether by photos, or videos, or other methods, our lives are increasingly becoming visible to the public eye.

now let's extrapolate that. this trend suggests to me that there may be some point in the future, where your entire life may be recorded, for posterity (including your future self) to review and enjoy. of course, i would imagine that you wouldnt review your whole life, or there might be times where you'll turn the "camera" (whatever the equivalent technology may be at that point in time) off. but it is interesting to me that we want that record so much. don't ask me what that suggests. but aiyah, what a world we may be living in 20 or 30 years from now...