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Copyright©  2008 Isabel Pedersen

 

concept: digital life

 

Reality-shifting media leads subjects toward conceptualizing their lives in terms of digital storage. This is not a new concept, but the proliferation of mobile devices to collect, store, and recall digital events makes the notion of “digital life” more plausible.

 

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6/25/08 > LifeSharing> Adrian Cockcroft discusses “powerful handhelds [that] could power what he called computer-assisted telepathy — permanent connections to alternate "worlds" such as Second Life — as well as "lifesharing," where people could be permanently connected to a network of friends.” [Computerworld article]

 

2/20/2008 > Momenta PC  > neck-worn computer, still prototype > The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. It records your whole life in an active buffer > Designer(s): Lauren Brenneman

 

5/01/08 > MyLifeBits Project > “MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything

                    

01/01/07 > A Digital Life” Scientific American article by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell

 

01/01/07 > SenseCam > a wearable digital camera designed to take photographs passively, without any intervention, from the wearer.