Thanks! I hope you or your friends find it useful one day.
I like your suggestion of recommended videos to load automatically on the opposite channel search..
I am going to check how to do that with the YouTube API.
Thx!
Here are some numbers to give you and idea of what it would take to record your entire life on video.
Assumed Parameters:
- 80 years (average life span)
- 1000 kbits/sec (YouTube video datarate)
- $50.00/TeraByte
Solution:
- 80 yrs * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day * 3600 sec/hour
= 2,522,880,000 secs/yr
- Total Secs in 80 yrs * data/sec = Total Storage required to store 80 yrs
so:
Total Storage = 2,522,880,000 secs/80yr * 1000 kbits/sec =
2.5 e+12 kbits for 80 yrs
(1 GB = 8,589,934.59 kbits)
in GB would be 293,701.89 GB for 80 years totalling about 287 TeraBytes (about 3.6 TB/year)
COST/Yr:
at 3.6TB/year * $50/TB = $179/yr
TOTAL STORAGE REQUIRED TO RECORD YOUR ENTIRE LIFE:
######### 287 TeraBytes ###########
TOTAL STORAGE COST TO RECORD YOUR ENTIRE LIFE:
$179/yr * 80 years = ######### $14.340 ###########
NOTE: This is an approximate value not considering that storage prices would be dramatically lower 80 yrs from today.
Probably, to record your entire life 80 years from now would cost less than $1000.
I think the technology is already available.
Of course, not yet integrated into a functional system.
The little iPhone like camera could be implanted on your forehead and powered by a tiny rechargeable battery embedded inside your chest (like a pacemaker) together with a miniature circuit. Video would be buffered on an internal 64GB solid memory and continuously transmitted via 3G network to a centralized storage facility.
the 64GB buffer would be used when wireless was not available. With 64GB you could store about a day worth of highly compressed (YouTube video like at about 1000kbits/sec) of continuous video before you an out of memory.
Hardware wise it could be mass produced for less than $100 bucks. Wireless costs would be expensive but as they go down in time more affordable.
I think your point makes a lot of sense. One of the sad things we would discover from that experiment is how the majority of the footage would be absolutely useless.. which to some degree would demonstrate how much time of our lives is spent doing useless or totally boring things.
My guess is that in an average 80 year life you would be pressed to find more than 24 hours worth of "worthy", relevant, amusing, moments.. most of these moments only relevant to the person itself or friends or relatives..
Another interesting thing that this experiment would yield would be to find out how much time in total was really spent doing useful things, moments that were turning points on our lives, in which we were truly happy, felt accomplished. On the average? how much time would that add up to.. probably to less than 0.0001% of our lives.. pff.. how depressing.. I cam going to do something useful right now.
This is very sad. I just submitted my application for Winter 2010 yesterday and just begun to learn about Hacker News, participate, .. and Boom!
I read about Dan and find out how a great guy he was and that he has committed suicide. This is an unlucky first sad impression for me and this forum, but it also has served, by reading through all your comments, to quickly find out what a tight and supportive community the YCombinator crowd is. My condolences to all those who knew him.