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Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life?

skade88 writes "As I get older, I find the little details of my life slip away from my memory after years and decades pass. I find myself wishing I had a way to record at least sound and video of my entire life. It would be nice to be able to go back and see what I was like when I was younger without the fog of memory clouding my view of the past. It would be cool to share with my boy friend and future kids how I was when I was younger by just showing them video from my life. Do y'all know of any good way to do this? I would settle for recording what I see from a first person point of view. There is also concerns that range beyond the technical. If I were to record my entire life, that would mean also recording other people, when they are interacting with me on a daily basis. What sort of privacy laws pertain to this? Even without laws, would others act differently around me because they were being recorded with my life record? How would it make you feel if your friend or family member did this?"

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  1. What is the point? by alen · · Score: 4, Funny

    At some point after you die someone will throw the hard copy in the trash and delete the digital to make room for porn

  2. Re:Resources by Dishevel · · Score: 4, Funny

    A large part of our lives are recorded.
    unless you live in the UK where most of your life is recorded.

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  3. Re:Everything you know is wrong! by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Yes! That's right! Everything you know is wrong!"

    Ha! I knew it!

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  4. Re:Seriously? by reasterling · · Score: 3, Funny

    But at least you will have a recording of the beating. Then they will beat you because of that recording. But at least you will have a recording of the beating. Then they will beat y.....

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    "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice" -- God