How Lifelogging is Transforming the Way We Remember, Track Our Lives
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Between Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, whether people know it or not most are already well-immersed into the rising trend of lifelogging. Once explored by only an elite few, the practice of lifelogging refers, quite literally, to logging or registering your daily life with technical tools and services.
When lifelogging first emerged in the 1980’s, pioneers wore bulky heads-up-displays, computer backpacks and even computerized shoes, capturing large portions of their lives as physiological data, photos and videos.
With the onset of social networks centered on status updates and photo sharing, the practice of recording and tracking life has gone mainstream. Furthermore, self-tracking health devices have made lifelogging an essential practice for monitoring health and exercise with popular devices and applications like Runkeeper and Nike Fitbit.
In 2013, lifelogging is set to hit another milestone with the launch of self-tracking hardware devices like Google Glass and Memoto’s wearable, automatic camera set to hit market.
To explore the “lifelogging” phenomenon and the shift in how people are remembering and capturing their lives, the creators of Memoto recently launched a documentary about the lifelogging movement. The documentary includes interviews with experts in the field like Steve Mann and Gordon Bell, along with the technical lead of Google Glass — exploring the past, present and future of lifelogging.
Would you consider yourself to be a lifelogger? Where do you see this movement going?
Martin Kallstrom is the Chief Executive Officer of the Swedish startup company Memoto.
