Kind of like storing all your IM conversations. Yes, you can continue where you left off and you can prepare for the conversation better, but what about spontaneity?
What will be the effect of knowing people's name only through your augmentation? Of a small number of people you see very often you'll learn their names (and you would have also without augmentation). But what about the large number of people in between acquaintance/friend and "have seen before"? Will we try less to get to know people as we have all the information about them we need for our purposes via augmentation? Don't we care less about people unless we see them very often? Will people become symbols of their information in our database only to activate the augmentation to recall that information?
I probably am too pessimistic (I call that realistic :-), but in the end, I wonder, do we control where our future is going with technology like this or do we wake up someday to a world we don't fit in anymore?
What will be the effect of knowing people's name only through your augmentation? Of a small number of people you see very often you'll learn their names (and you would have also without augmentation). But what about the large number of people in between acquaintance/friend and "have seen before"? Will we try less to get to know people as we have all the information about them we need for our purposes via augmentation? Don't we care less about people unless we see them very often? Will people become symbols of their information in our database only to activate the augmentation to recall that information?
I probably am too pessimistic (I call that realistic :-), but in the end, I wonder, do we control where our future is going with technology like this or do we wake up someday to a world we don't fit in anymore?