CNN released 2 stories on Lifestreaming this week. The first is titled “Do digital diaries mess up your brain?” written by Elizabeth Landau which provides some very interesting information with regards to Lifestreaming. It begins providing some background about Gordon Bell and the Sensecam which will finally be released soon. But the story goes on to also discuss how the current suite of services including Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter are now providing additional opportunities to stream our lives. Then the story takes a bit of a different turn
If we rely on technology for documenting, sorting and storing information — creating digital diaries, or “lifestreaming” — what will become of our minds? Although there is not a lot of research on this subject, psychologists have a range of opinions about where we’re headed.
It goes on to talk about the effects on the brain and how learning to use the technologies that allow us to Lifestream offer an important way to keep the mind stimulated much like puzzles. The future is discussed where it may be possible to do most of