Hey guys, quick warning.

In this episode we'll be seeing the name of that home speaker device that starts with

an A. Hi.

Apologies in advance if that makes yours respond.

We promised not to tell her to call mom, though you should totally call your mom.

My friend, Farhud Manjoo, is a tech writer for The New York Times.

And a big part of his job is asking questions about the impact of technology on society.

Sometimes he explores his ideas on his own, like by bringing home the latest new gadgets and

software. And I've come to learn he's a digital pack rat.

I'm the kind of person who like saves every email, goes back and like looks at email from the past.

When Facebook pops up with one of those five years ago today reminders, he's like,

thanks Facebook, don't ever stop.

Sort of everything that I've ever written I look at or I think about or search for.

And I love looking at that stuff. It's just super interesting to just kind of go back in time

and like look at that and like feel yourself in that moment.

One day Farhud was working from his home office, eating lunch at his desk and checking Twitter.

He clicked on a video link.

Imagine if you could record your life.

It was a TED talk.

Everything you said, everything you did, available in a perfect memory store at your fingertips.

This recording is from 2011. The guy speaking is Debroy. He's a researcher at MIT.

So you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them.

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