Is Life-logging Possible?

I made the mistake of trying to write out my blog on Blogger and it crashed on me. So now, I'm back to using Evernote so a lot of stuff happened since my last post I have to put it in small increments.

I was talking about my desire to be able to record my daily thoughts and activities. For example, I've caught my son Major pushing his sister so I had to put him in timeout so I thought it would be really neat to have video of the incident but instead I have pictures below.So when they're in timeout I just turn it so the door faces the corner. I used Siri to set a timer for two minutes and called the foul like an NFL play.

"Foul. Major Canty, pushing and shoving , 2 minute penalty."

I wish I could've recorded that and shared with my wife simply by saying, "Hey, baby check out this video when I had to put Major in time out."

So I Google Voiced: recording life 24/7 and this was the link I chose: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifecasting_(video_stream)

So, I'm talking about life casting! Okay, first step in the right direction. So now that I know that in talking about, I click another link and search for more information.

So I clicked on this link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits

And found out about the MyLifeBits Project by Microsoft. Sweet, I'm not crazy and I'm not the only one thinking about this.

If Microsoft is already working on this with a mega-brain like Bill Gates, are people "life-logging?" From what I gathered in the article, this is an experiment to see if they can create an e-record of Bell's life so that it can recorded and searched electronically.

It was mentioned that he digitizes every piece of paper he reads, keeps copious notes, etc. the process sounds extremely tedious and inefficient.

I am hypothesizing that the reason we are not life-logging on a mass scale is due to limitations in hardware and the difficulty of actually imputing data. Smartphones and tablets have been incredible game changers in regards to connectivity and consumption of information. As far as input, we are still limited to the keyboard, camera, scanners, and the most important piece I believe, data storage on CDs or hard drives.

So how much data would be necessary to record the average lifetime?

 {Google search: data required to record a persons life}. I didn't get the results I was looking for, so I just typed in MyLifeBits.

Results: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,311727,00.html

According to the article, they've discussed the use of a 1 terabyte hard drive to save a lifetime of tidbits. However, if we consider video, were looking at 4 hours a day for a year. So basically, we would need 4 terabytes to cover a year of a person's data (assuming the average person sleeps 8 hours a day). If that person starts using the information at age 3, the average lifespan in America is 78.64 years, so the "average" person would require 300 terabytes of data! 

Where would you save that much data? For my family alone we would be looking at 2.1 petabytes (PB) of data. This is also the identifiable storage capacity of the human brain (2PB)!

That's all for tonight, I did get one response to my first post, thanks Adam Burke. Tomorrow, I'll be looking at data storage capacity and the speed required to transfer all that data.

If you have any suggestions, shoot 'em, I'm bound to crack this nut.