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days are photographed (and thus
remembered) in copious detail, he
was distressed by how quickly the
mundane events of everyday life,
like breakfast with his kids, slipped
from memory. He wanted something capable of “gathering as much
data as possible” in a way that was
“very, very effortless,” Källström
told me in a 2012 interview. And
thus was born the Narrative Clip,
which claims to satisfy “the dream
of a photographic memory.”
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“Sadly, I’ve lost both my parents, and I really feel that the time
I spent with them is fading, and
the memories of them are fading
much more quickly than I’d like
them to,” Källström said. “What
is left are the stories that we have
always told each other … and the
photos that have ended up in albums. The in-betweens are getting
lost more and more.”
The early computer pioneer Vannevar Bush shared a similar concern. In his influential 1945 essay
“As We May Think,” Bush made
a case for augmenting the human
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The Narrative
Clip captures
the author at
work, at home
and during
her commute.