In 1945, a government scientist named Vannevar Bush described an idea he termed "Memex." It was, in some ways, a prescient flash forward to smartphones.
The ideas behind LifeLog are much, much older than the program itself. A failed military cyber-diary from 15 years ago was, in a way, a preview of our smartphone-addicted, Facebooking, government-surveilled present.Īt the same time, LifeLog was "a cautionary tale regarding privacy controversies,” its creator Douglas Gage told me during a series of phone and email interviews. Barely a year after it began, the LifeLog program abruptly ended, effectively shamed out of existence by privacy-advocates and the media.Īnd then, over the following decade, much of what LifeLog aimed to achieve happened, anyway. But today, it's just a footnote in tech history. LifeLog arguably was years ahead of its time. It was potential all-seeing government surveillance before anyone worried about the NSA or had heard of Edward Snowden. LifeLog was an iPhone before there were iPhones, social media before there was social media.
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