With development of technology, I think memory can be recorded completely by lifelogging or other new things some day. Development of technology is indeterminate and difficult to image, such as, 100 years ago, people could not image that it spends only 8 hours in getting Sweden from China.
However, as Miriam and Shelagh said, memory is more than storage: in essence it must be activated. Intelligent as machines or technologies are, they can not think about something as human being. In my opinion, memory is not only a record but a process of thinking. Lifelogging is able to record people’s memory but it can not identify what is people‘s want and what is not. Sometimes people may want to forget some bad things. Maybe a famous man’s memory will be made a document because he made a big contribution in some fields. How the technology identify which is job experience or privacy? I do not think machine can do that.
So I think machines cannot replace human being‘s thinking ability.
However, as Miriam and Shelagh said, memory is more than storage: in essence it must be activated. Intelligent as machines or technologies are, they can not think about something as human being. In my opinion, memory is not only a record but a process of thinking. Lifelogging is able to record people’s memory but it can not identify what is people‘s want and what is not. Sometimes people may want to forget some bad things. Maybe a famous man’s memory will be made a document because he made a big contribution in some fields. How the technology identify which is job experience or privacy? I do not think machine can do that.
So I think machines cannot replace human being‘s thinking ability.
