*I guess those millions of motion-trackers are heading to the landfill, then.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601300/life-logging-is-dead-long-live-life-logging/
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"This month, Computerworld caught up with Gordon Bell, an emeritus Microscoft researcher who became famous for using a neck-worn mini-camera, among other things, to record everything about his life.
Bell, now 81, told Computerworld that he’d quit, too. The whole life-logging project, said Bell, "wasn't something that was bringing a lot of value to my life.”
"As described on his MyLifeBits experiment’s homepage, Bell had tried to create a version of the Memex—the early record-everything concept imagined by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Bell said he thinks that these days, smartphones are getting the job done for most people…."
