Human Screenome Project wants you to share everything you do on your smartphone

You’ve almost certainly seen them on YouTube. “Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 20 years” (5 million views.) “Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 20 years” (10.9 million views.) “Age 12 to married — I took a photo every day” (an astonishing 110 million views.) Heck, even Homer Simpson and Family Guy’s Peter Griffin have parodied the format. In an age of selfies and ubiquitous smartphone cameras, this increasingly popular genre of time-lapse videos depicting the aging process lets people self-chronicle their lived experiences in a quintessentially modern way that would have been all but impossible just a couple of decades ago.

But what if the bigger story wasn’t some YouTube star’s changing facial features, but rather the fact that tens of millions of us would dedicate minutes of our day to watching them? And, maybe after that, tweeted out a link to the video we’d just watched. Or sent it to a buddy on WhatsApp. Or fired up the camera app on our own smartphone and started making our own version. Or just forgot about what we’d just watched entirely, and played a quick game on Mario Kart Tour.

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