[reaperducer]

Imagine a world in which you could use facial recognition, have an instant summary in front of you you reminding you of someone's birthday, the names of their kids ...

I already have that. It's called a memory. Came free with my brain.

[recursive-call]

Which is great for you, but a lot of people genuinely don’t have the memory capabilities to remember the birthdays of various people. I literally forget how to spell my own name sometimes, keeping track of birthdays is out of the question. But people get really offended if their birthdays go by unnoticed…

[reaperducer]

I literally forget how to spell my own name sometimes

You should see a doctor about that.

a lot of people genuinely don’t have the memory capabilities to remember the birthdays of various people

Because they don't try.

30 years ago, it wasn't weird to have 30, 40, even 50 phone numbers memorized. Ask anyone who was alive then. Now people just push the icon for the person they want, allowing their brains to get lazy.

Your brain: Use it or lose it.

[GrinningFool]

> Because they don't try.

Must be nice.

In any case the point of my original post was much more about technology that serves only the user - not any specific use case.

From the replies, I see I could have done a better job of making that clear.