please empty your brain below
Maybe it will record your thoughts instead?

Debster | 26.11.07 - 7:32 a.m. | #

Leaving out the moralistic bit, I can't understand why it is taking this long for a manufacturer to come up with a recording device you could put on the end of your finger...... I want to take a photo of THAT

Ham | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 7:35 a.m. | #

Casio and other manufacturers already sell wristwatch cameras: http://www.pimall.com
ais/
wrist...atchcamera.html

You mention cinemas not liking people recording the movie "down to the last reel", I doubt they will be showing films in cinemas by then, as the installation of digital cinema is well under way even now, so maybe “down to the last digit” would be more appropriate!.

John | 26.11.07 - 8:49 a.m. | #

Once that is common place, how long will it be before your thought's can be downloaded? And once that happens, surely you'd be able to upload your thoughts into a new mind?

Anyone want to "live" forever?

Dave | 26.11.07 - 8:57 a.m. | #

It would not be much of a porn movie if you had to keep your clothes on to capture the action. More likely to be an implant.

Fremsley | 26.11.07 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Neither utopias nor dystopias happen quite as completely or effectively as expected, for two reasons:

(a) Sod's Law
(b) Life's too short.

One day it might be possible to do all sorts of things - but will it be worth the time and money, even if it works properly? Think of all the photos we already have that we never look at. How many people really use all those functions on their mobiles now?

Autolycus | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 9:55 a.m. | #

Well, you might be a party to it, but I shan't

Blue Witch | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 10:30 a.m. | #

What an insecure bunch of individuals you Brits have become...!

Don't kid yourselves.. "THEY" know all they want to know about you..already.

Has it harmed you up till now..??

So..You're just beginning to realise that Santa Klaus doesn't exist after all..

Welcome to the real world..

IsarSteve | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 12:14 p.m. | #

Great post.

Looks like the stereotype of the American who doesn't understand irony isn't completely accurate; other nationalities might be susceptible as well...?

Newbie | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 2:25 p.m. | #

#Newbie, thanks for the "ironic" compliment...

Of course I understand irony..

The point I was trying to make is that I get sick of all this discussion about loss of freedoms etc., etc.
When it comes from "subjects" of country that carry around more CCs with them than any other European country.. It's too late..!

But of course, the stereotypical Brit..
when confronted usually makes himself out be "superior" than the rest of us minions unlucky enough not to reside on the "islands" and who don't really understand..

We do....

IsarSteve | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 3:01 p.m. | #

Great thoughts on the matter. One film that potrays this ideology perfectly is the short film "The Final Cut". Found it very enjoyable and provoking, plus it has Robin Williams at one of his best dark roles.

The Fly | Homepage | 26.11.07 - 4:09 p.m. | #

Wow! The stereotypical yank calling the streotypical Brit "stereotypical".

You wouldn't read about it!

flashgordonnz | 26.11.07 - 11:33 p.m. | #

I get sick of talk about loss of freedoms, too. So I went on a march the other day, to protect free speech. Wish I'd done it earlier!
I didn't shout or wave a placard. But I did have a nice chat with a lovely retired couple whose daughter lives in London, working for a bank.

flashgordonnz | 26.11.07 - 11:37 p.m. | #

its too difficult to get things back from the archive folder already

rashbre | Homepage | 27.11.07 - 2:50 a.m. | #

all I said was 'this piece of haddock is good enough for Jehovah'...

steve | Homepage | 27.11.07 - 8:11 a.m. | #

Your standards are obviously going down the drain. That third paragraph... If you *really* cared, you would have found a way to start with "One day..."

Wayne | 27.11.07 - 11:04 a.m. | #

IsarSteve is right. Lets not worry about these silly issues like 'freedom'. It's too late - get over it already!

I, for one, will be first in the line to get my all-in-one oystercard/cashcard/ID card/GovCom tracking device implanted into my hand, for my "safety and convenience", of course.

Only those who have something to hide and something to fear, right?

Battersea Pig | 27.11.07 - 1:15 p.m. | #

#flashgordon 'cor luvva ducks.. you think I'm an American .. you have to laugh.. don't you.. nah.. I was born south of Barnet and north of Euston Road.. work that one out..

#Battersea.. very good... just ten to fifteen years too late..

If "they" want to.. they know what you buy at the supermarket.. when you do your shopping.. where you are when you have your mobile with you.. where and when you travel.. when you go abroad..
how you long you sleep for.. "Mobile phone off".. What you tell the doctor.. which insurances you have.. who you write emails to..... etc.. etc..

Try divorcing yourself from your mobile, PC and CCs.. Use cash..
then you might get some freedom back..

As I said in the first comment.. what an insecure lot you've become..

IsarSteve | Homepage | 27.11.07 - 4:04 p.m. | #

:^)
Darn it: pwned!

I think the point is that are this detail on our lives is not yet joined-up and just "available" on DVD-ROM or in real-time for people to sift through. At the mo' (but correct me if I'm wrong) someone wanting to see all this detail needs to get a warrant and have a fairly good reason. Obviously the bank can watch me in real time, but only see the value and location of transactions, they can't see what I'm buying. The supermarket can see what I'm buying, but don't know who I am just my CC number. Unless I use my Nectar, then they pay me for the info.
So I haven't "lost" my "freedom" yet, just find it somewhat difficult to avoid leaving evidence of my activities should someone feel like going to some effort to review this. I just don't see the need, outside of a courtroom, to join all this detail up AND pay for it out of my taxes. I live in fear of an EU crat deciding that I suffer "social exclusion" and venting the full force of her good-intentions on me.

flashgordonnz | 27.11.07 - 4:28 p.m. | #

</switches off>

diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.11.07 - 5:27 p.m. | #

I don't carry a camera around with me and I don't have a handphone, so I presumed that the "permanent hard drive" which DG refers to had something to do with new, improved Viagra.

Those are more the type of memories most of us prefer, aren't they? No loss of freedoms there.

Jakartass | Homepage | 01.12.07 - 4:29 a.m. | #











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