911: There are some things I don't want to remember

operatorLA loves science, he really does. But sometimes it sees like things are getting a bit too Orwellian for his tastes. Take this bit he found over at Cool Hunter.

Senior Microsoft researcherGordon Bell was none too happy with the idea of losing his memories, so he began to digitally archive everything he could.

"First, he scanned his old photographs, research documents and notes. He began recording his meetings and phone calls and cataloguing his new photos and movies he saw. Every e-mail exchange he had was digitally archived, and he started using the company’s prototype SenseCam, which he wears around his neck, to automatically snap photos throughout the day"

That is some shit, but it gets even weirder better! He is now working on software that will make the process of archiving your memories even easier and with the advent of tools to help us do do, soon (2012) you will be able to search a database of your experiences. At the current pace of miniaturization, camera components could be made tiny enough to fit in a contact lens in just a few years. A high-precision microphone could fit in your ear. And the data could be downloaded to a searchable handheld gadget.

Then we will have no excuses for forgetting anything... well, we will have maybe one excuse:

"Dude, how did you forget the inforamtion form our meeting last week?"
"I'm sorry. My mind computer crashed."

see the full concept here.

Read Cool Hunter's post here.