Your Life Will Be Recorded in a Matchbox

VNUNet carries this tidbit from an Intel researcher. He describes how, within a few years, a small device can record all conversation or actions of a person.

Within 10 years we could be carrying personal computing devices that store our every word and deed, according to chip giant Intel.

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He [Senior Intel researcher Roy Want] explained that the matchbox-sized PC could be used to store a wide variety of personal information that could be accessed by many different devices.

"Storage capacity is growing in leaps and bounds. By 2012 you will be able to carry a device that could record a lifetime's conversations. It would take about three terabytes of data to do," said Want.

"To include video you'd need 97 terabytes, which is expected to be economically viable at current development rates by 2014."

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Prices, timetables and news could be downloaded from billboards and other public access points and then printed out on wireless printers.

Security would be a major concern with such a device, and Want proposed a new system of access control based not on passwords but on what the user can do uniquely.

He gave the example of carrying a number of digital images, some of which the user knew and some of which were random. Access would be allowed by picking the correct images.