Jim Gemmell and Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley discuss the rise of digital records of daily life and what it means to have unmatched access to our pasts.

This article is so worth the rest of a read, take a few and check it out.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6696797.html

<excerpt>"We are on the cusp of an era in which, if you choose, you can create e-memories of everything, forget nothing, and keep them in your own personal archive. You can have what we refer to as Total Recall. Souvenirs and mementos will belong to another era. More and more is being recorded about each one of us than ever before, and it is bound increasingly to include reading habits, health, location, and computer usage. Archivists, who are already beginning to deal with digital curation, will have to grapple less with physical objects and more with the potential analysis and distribution of the information those objects represent. And library patrons will be a new breed, "a digital person," with their own personal digital libraries of everything they've ever read, seen, and heard."</excerpt>