Samsung tries to patent the story of your life

Just imagine the stories that your Galaxy could tell.

(Credit: Samsung )

We all love ourselves so much these days that everything we do takes on the piquancy of deep significance.

We need to share as much of it as we can. We need to tell as many people as we can -- even if we don't know them.

So Samsung, in what can only be an attack of heightened public service, has determined that all of your activity through your cell phone should be recorded and presented to you as a beautiful tale.

I am grateful to Engadget for noticing this patent application titled: "Apparatus and Method for Generating Story According to User Information."

The idea seems to be that all of the data you push, press, and click into your phone will be turned into a daily Hollywood screenplay. You know, based on a true story.

Here's a sentence from the application: "The analysis unit analyzes the log information collected from the information collection unit and decides at least one topic representing the user's daily life information."

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