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Heavy users of social media record many aspects of their daily lives: activities, location, thoughts, feelings, and even purchases. Self-tracking looks at a future of “being able to remember everything about your life in extraordinary detail. Bell proposes that a “continuous digital diary or e-memory” that integrates digital recording devices, memory storage and search engines will fundamentally “change what it means to be human.”” (Being Human in 2020 (.pdf) is an interesting look at where current technology trends are heading). Feltron’s annual reports is a glimpse of how personal information can be visualized. I posted on something similar, but with a learning focus, on technologically externalized knowledge and learning. For now, we are collecting data. We’re getting better at connecting it to evaluate meaningful patterns.