From Gmail to Lifelogs & the arrival of the Symbiotic Age

Did YOU know that it's Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful? No? Well, it is. And within that context they're testing this new Email-service, called Gmail (how original) >>

Gmail differs significantly from other mail-services though; it is built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. So they give you over 2000 Megabytes (2 Gigabytes) of storage for free and preserve, for the first time, everything you will ever type and Google Search quickly recalls any message you have ever sent or received - so no more need to file messages! So Gmailers are bloggers really, even if they don't realize, since everything that gets typed, gets logged. Next thing you know, we store everything we've ever said and then everything we've ever seen. Combined with effective systems for auto-archiving and auto-indexing, this is where the true realm of LifeLogging begins.. (check out the Nokia Lifeblog to get an idea)...

... Lifelogging or not, since technological development itself is speeding up exponentially, quite quickly we're brought back to that one question again: 'Yeah, but now what?' And then I say: well, better to brace yourself and prepare for the coming of the Symbiotic Age...

" Technology is becoming organic, Nature is becoming technologic " (Brian Arthur, SFI)