You Say Facebook. I Say Lifelog Same-same, but different, yet same-same
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DARPA cancelled Lifelog in late January of 2004.
February 4, 2004 Suckerburg launches Facebook.
Compared together and they appear the same. Exactly the same.
DARPA cancelled accepting of proposals from contractors (May 7 2004), not the project.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030603173339/http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/PIP_03-30.html
They found a contractors (obviously Zukerberg, Apple, Goolge and possibly others), so they closed that solicitation, nothing more.
Also, note that smartphones became very popular very soon after that iPhone was announced 3 years later ( 2004 - 2007 is a decent time for manufacturing process, from customer order as a wish to the real production start, including R&D and everything ). Also Google bought Android Inc. in 2005. And, suddenly, smartphones are exactly a "hardware worn by the LifeLog user."
That was why I said same-same, but different, yet same-same.
Lifelog became facebook.
Spot on about the cellphones.
Smartphones are computers.
Have one only for the hotspot to use. Don't care for it.
Remember when one of Clintons platforms was to get a computer in every household?
In the 70's my dad worked for a government telecommunications contracting firm. In 1978-1979 he was gone for work. He spent those two years at military bases as project manager over the instillation of video conferencing telecommunication systems.
I believe there is more tech and advanced tech our government is not sharing with us.
Think microwave ovens. Think computers. Thin cellphone.