Samsung files patent for auto-generating life diary, Mayans didn’t see it coming

Samsung files patent for auto-generating life diary, Mayans didn't see it coming

If the minutiae of people’s lives crowd your feeds and drives you to frustration, you really won’t be wanting this Samsung patent application to be approved. The USPTO filing outlines a process for creating a “life diary” by collecting all manner of information about your daily routine from your smartphone. Data such as where you’ve been, what the weather was like, what you’ve been listening to, et cetera, would be spun out in computer-generated sentences and compiled into a story of your day. Although it would lack the romanticism of a traditional, hand-written diary, we could see it having some use as a mundane log — as long as you’re happy for all that info to be recorded, that is. However, if this ever comes to fruition with sharing options, to boot, all the pictures of food, coffee house check-ins and FarmVille updates would seem insignificant in comparison. Some things, like the last time we sang along with the Bieb, are better left unshared.

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