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In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.
In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste
Even if it's private and independent, I would feel uneasy with that. I might want to store and analyze the recordings of my life - but would people that I caught on camera want the same?..
I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don't have to consent to my having a memory of them.
I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.
Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven't seen it. It's called "The Entire History of You". Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.
I think it's way too precise and permanent to compare to human memory.
Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.
I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.
I don't want to to be a part of people's recording in real life encounters against my consent. That black mirror episode of everything you see being recorded was a nightmare.
True. But it's still up to us whether to use those "memory enhancements" on other, non-consenting people.