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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
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Police officers wear specs, which are able to both capture visual information, and also present information to the officer wearing the specs.
Rather than filing written reports on what happens when on patrol, your specs can record what happens and place it in your lifelog. Any of your interactions with superiors or other officers can also be logged. All of this information is placed in a virtual repository called CopSpace.
CopSpace was also useful for filing paperwork in a place where it would be visible to other law enforcement personnel:
CopSpace seems to have been formed from MySpace, and then bulked up.
Here's another take on it:
John Brunner mentions something like this in The Shockwave Rider:
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