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having a record of all that was IM'd is a very important tool.

it is.

There are numerous occaisions where windows have to be closed at a rapid pace to avoid clutter and to maintain appearances of productivity, so messages can get lost.

addresess...

phone numbers...

instructions...

important details that would have completely been overlooked or forgotten had the logging not been in place.

I only wish I could have someone, akin to a court reporter - although only for my benefit (not to the benefit of others) - typing down my every word so that I might be able to reflect upon what had been said.

I probably would be able to keep track of all my goings-on instead of relying on my memory, which I regret to say, is like a steel trap...

with a few teeth missing.

as I said, the transcript of my conversations would be for my own personal use; to double check conversations so that I can verify the veracity of my statements when I am not altogether sure of their integrity, while I feign implicit knowledge.

Also, to reference what was said to me, as a record so that I might be able to reiterate the exact words to the person who, for one reason or another, might have had a lapse in memory.

to be fair, though, everyone should have their own personal "conversation reporter", if you will... then each conversation will have redundant records of what was said.

It is important to note, however, that the conversation reports must record what was said and not what each person thought s/he had said...

this is the precise reason why miscommunication occurs.

one person thinks something, but doesn't exactly say, exactly, what s/he means. then the other person hears something, but doesn't exactly remember what, exactly, was said...

it's like the telephone game with four people, but each person is partially deaf and cannot completely pronouce each syllable...

from brain to mouth to ear to brain...

something gets lost in the translation...

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of course, the conversation reporters would have to be non-entities, hence not really people, because they could never be allowed to interact within the conversation. if they participate in the conversation, then they are no longer objective, and therefore any testimony would be deemed in admissible by me.

or whoever.

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I guess, then, everyone should wear a bug with infinite storage space or something connected wirelessly.

retention periods for this would have to be at least 50 years, so storage capacity requirements could easily be in the yotta's of bytes, depending on recording quality... of course, if transcribed, text is easily compressible and searchable, so we might just need exabytes...

processing speeds would need to be ridiculous though... quantum level probably.

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let's see...

6 billion people, 50 year retention period, 7000 words/day for women, 2000 words/day for men...

which is 4.86 words/minute for women and 1.39 words/minute for men..

At any given minute I'm guessing that 2/3's of the coversations out there are woman to woman (both women can probably talking simultaneouly and still hear what each other is saying), 1/6 is woman to man (but really 19/20 of that conversation would be just the woman talking), 1/6 is man talking to man - but as men usually talk one at a time...

so...

[6 billion * 2/3 * (4.86*2)] + [6 billion * 1/6 * 19/20 * 4.86] + [6 billion * 1/6 * 1/20 * 1.39] + [6 billion * 1/6 * 1.39]

which breaks down to...

6 billion * {[2/3 * (4.86*2)] + [1/6 * ((19/20 * 4.86) + (1-1/20 * 1.39))]}

which is...

45 billion words/minute...

37.5 billion words/minute is what it would words per minute are if you just add the average woman and men words per minute, which is close... but I think the 45 billion is more accurate...

so average number of letters per word is 5.3...

each letter being a byte...

222 gigabytes per minute...

so...

312 terabytes per day...

which is...

111 petabytes per year...

with a 50-year retention period...

that would be about 5.4 exabytes...

give or take due to rounding...

so given 1,073,741,824 gigs per exa...

that would take 5.4 million 200-GB hardrives...

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and that's just to store it...

you would need a lot more than that to transcribe it from recorded voice...

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so I wonder... how well can Big Brother really be listening? How good can echelon really be?

he's gotta be gunning for you, I bet...

just, don't get on his bad side I guess...

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seriously...

don't.