why is taking photos and not looking at them later considered a problem? A problem for who? Who benefits when we are forcibly reminded to consume our "past" in the form of AI-curated images? 
Taking a photo of something is not automatically an expression of a wish to save it for later; sometimes it is simply a way of framing your attention in the present moment
or taking a photo is a way to indulge in a fantasy about the future: we can imagine how much our future selves will envy us now
but when tech companies are permitted to sort and curate personal images and then force us to reconsume them, the idea is to normalize the surrender of our identity in the name of convenience
taking photos is then less about our framing our focus in the present, it is about conducting passive surveillance on ourselves so that a tech company can reveal to us who we are later
barf: "Then there are Google’s daily prompts to reminisce. It’s difficult to overstate how good Google’s machines are at mining your collection to find new stuff to awe you"
That awe = your selfhood being overwritten by the tech company's "magic algorithms"
That awe = your selfhood being overwritten by the tech company's "magic algorithms"
it's an invitation to be so checked out of your own life that you'll enjoy it more when it is repackaged for you on a screen, as if we can only understand "enjoying life" as an act of passive image consumption
taking photos doesn't need to be reduced to a wish to consume oneself or one's life as images. the easier it is to take images, the less they need to be about "remembering" or "documenting"
"One study has shown that mindlessly taking photos reduces our ability to recall events in the world around us"
yes, please be mindful about your photos, and do your duty and recall everything that happened around you like a good surveillance machine
yes, please be mindful about your photos, and do your duty and recall everything that happened around you like a good surveillance machine
people tend to worry that "taking photos ruins your memories of things"; but taking and sharing pictures can now also be a way of deliberately forgetting, a way of expelling something — circulating an image so you can separate it from yourself, let it go
