Slightly more than half of respondents to a recently concluded IEET poll said, “Yes,” they would like to have a recording of their whole life. About a third said, “No, thanks,” and 12% were not sure.

Assuming the technology was robust, reliable, non-intrusive, and affordable—would you want to record your whole life?

Two of our respondents provided comments. Andrew Sisk said:

For me, a full record, not just webcam that would be awful, but a high resolution reconstruction of the past would help me live in the present. I’d have a clearer picture of the causal agents which most significantly created the present situation. I would be able to link cause and effect to make one timeless whole. I would be able to see why things happen and that would give me a lot of peace of mind. Right now I just forget most of the past like everyone else (or just miss it in the first place) and am left with a present that seems as confusing as if I had just been born.

And J.C. Garner offered this opinion:

Would just hamper living in the present. The very moment we STOP replaying the past and programming the future, we become consciously aware of the present, and everything just naturally falls into place.