“We’re only a few years away from the cost of data storage dropping so far that we can record “everything” that happens to us: our location at any given time, what we are hearing, what we are seeing, and what we are saying or doing. With your phone converting all the speech it hears to text (and storing that, too, and indexing it by time and location it becomes possible to search it all – like having Google for your memory. You don’t ever need to forget a conversation again, even if all you can recall about it is that it was with a stranger you met in a given pub about two months ago and someone mentioned the word ‘fishhooks’.”