Memory machines and the future of knowledge management

Digital technology enables the expansive and detailed recording of daily happenings. In the years to come, we can expect the rapid advance of an array of digital recorders. We can expect as a consequence the emergence of memory machines, which will record many snippets of our lives and make them available for search and recall. In businesses, workers have been found to be a valuable source of intellectual capital. Here I consider the integration of the many memory machines of workers within overarching knowledge management systems of companies.