Well, the good folks at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) want to keep tabs on you J. Q. Citizen.
The Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting proposals to develop an ontology-based (sub)system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities. The objective of this "LifeLog" concept is to be able to trace the "threads" of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships.
They're soliciting bids. Maybe it's time to sell out and go to work for the government. Remember, only the guilty need worry.
Posted by jim at May 21, 2003 10:18 AM | TrackBackI've no doubt that if "LifeLog" systems ever become commonplace they will be used and abused by the authorities in various ways (and likewise by creditors, employers, identity thieves, etc.). However, it doesn't sound to me as though the project at hand is specifically intended as a tool for surveillance from without, but rather as a tool for recording experiences from within.
This reminds me of David Gelernter's Lifestreams and a similar project at Microsoft. Is it explicitly related to either of them or just implicitly so?
Links to the Gelernter and Microsoft projects at: http://aprendizdetodo.com/toys/?item=20021123
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle on May 26, 2003 08:09 PM