Thinking about all the digital content that we're generating of our life - the pictures, the videos, etc, I was wondering how some future person will find all the "important" or "quality" memories. At some point it will be impossible to go through them by hand and people will have to rely on a digital agent to do the work. I'd think that it would figure out "good" memories by checking the photos / videos for people smiling, laughing. Maybe cross reference that against a digital calendar for important dates like "Frank's wedding" or "trip to Cuba". These digital agents might even create slideshows automatically. Perhaps finding a song played a lot in your music album or recognized from some videos.
In a way it will be great to hand off boiler plate work of like "make me a scrap book" to a computer. On the other hand it will be creepy that software will be able to know and guess so much about us.
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