I was recently gifted an Apple Watch by my Son on my birthday and my geek side started exploring the tech side of it. So In my previous blog, I stepped into the realm of wearable AI technologies and the incredible science of model compression that’s making these gadgets smarter, lighter, and more integrated into our daily lives.

I‘ve been captivated by the notion that technology has the power to profoundly improve human lives which is #techforgood. It’s a belief that has guided much of my personal and professional journey. One project where I put my heart is Earnkarma.io which uses blockchain for good. Side by side there’s always been this lingering question in my mind: Can technology do more than just improve life? Can it, perhaps, extend the essence of who we are beyond the physical constraints of death? It’s a question that feels as old as time, yet with each technological leap, it always seems humans are an inch closer to an answer.

Enter EternaLink ( I liked this name so bear with me :)) — a concept that emerged from my deep dive into the latest in wearable AI technologies and model compressions. EternaLink isn’t my concept of evolution in wearable tech; it’s a leap towards what might just be the next frontier: using technology to preserve and extend our consciousness beyond our physical lifespan.

What are EternaLink’s Core Features

• Comprehensive AI Assistant: EternaLink goes beyond simple notifications and fitness tracking. It serves as your personal assistant, health advisor, and emotional support, learning from your habits to provide personalized guidance and support in your daily activities. At the end of each day, EternaLink compiles a personalized summary of your day’s activities, achievements, and pending tasks. It then crafts an optimized plan for the next day, considering your professional and personal commitments, health data, and even local weather conditions. This AI-driven planner ensures you’re always prepared, maximizing your productivity and balancing your work-life commitments effectively.

• Health and Wellness Insights: With its advanced health monitoring capabilities, EternaLink can predict stress levels based on your physiological data and daily schedule. I**t intelligently filters incoming messages and emails, prioritizing communications based on urgency and your current stress levels. Non-urgent, potentially stress-inducing messages ( like the ones from you Boss :)) are rescheduled to a more suitable time, allowing you to maintain focus and well-being. **This feature is particularly valuable for managing the high demands of your career while ensuring you remain available for your family’s needs.

• Real-Time Language Translation: Imagine effortlessly communicating in any language during international meetings or while traveling. EternaLink includes a real-time translator that picks up spoken languages and translates them directly into your ear, breaking down language barriers and enhancing your global interactions. This feature not only aids in professional environments but also enriches family vacations abroad, making every interaction smooth and understandable.

• Truth Detection: I always say that truth is going to be the most valuable currency of the future. Navigating negotiations, meetings, and even social gatherings becomes more intuitive with EternaLink’s truth detection feature. It analyzes vocal tones and facial expressions (when paired with AR glasses or through your smartphone camera) to provide a real-time trustworthiness score. This insight helps you make informed decisions, whether you’re evaluating a business deal or simply gauging the sincerity of a new acquaintance. It will be a nightmare for Sales Guys ::)

• Digital Legacy and Memory Preservation: Perhaps the most profound feature of EternaLink is its ability to capture and store your memories, thoughts, and experiences in a secure digital format in the cloud. With its ever-learning ML, it mimics your consciousness. It ensures that your legacy and wisdom are preserved for future generations, creating a digital avatar that embodies your consciousness.

As Digital Legacy and Memory Preservation is the most important feature of EternaLink — Let me elaborate it further

Imagine having the ability to look back on cherished memories with crystal clarity, or share experiences and milestones with family and friends. EternaLink makes this possible by recording, with your consent, important events, conversations, and personal achievements. This digital scrapbook can become a treasured family heirloom, accessible to future generations.

It is equipped with a feature that captures and uploads snippets of your daily life, significant moments, and personal reflections to secure cloud storage. This function acts as a digital journal, preserving your thoughts, experiences, and wisdom in real time. It’s designed with privacy and discretion in mind, allowing you to select what gets saved and what remains private.

Consciousness Continuity

Taking the concept a step further, EternaLink uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze your uploaded memories, decisions, and preferences, essentially learning to “think” like you. This could open the door to creating a digital avatar or assistant that reflects your consciousness, offering advice or making decisions based on how you might have, ensuring your knowledge and values continue to influence the world even after you’re gone.

Knowledge Preservation

For professionals and Organizations, **EternaLink’s memory preservation feature ensures that valuable insights, innovative ideas, and unique skills aren’t lost with time. This can be especially important in fields where experiential knowledge is paramount. **Your digital legacy could continue to mentor, teach, and inspire long after your retirement or passing, contributing to your field’s body of knowledge. **You can be paid by Organizations even after your death. **This will be the best way to remain a step ahead of AI by using AI.

What are the Accessories and Enhancements

• Smart Pin or a band: Base of your EternaLink ensuring it fits your style and the occasion perfectly.

• Add on Augmented Reality (AR) Contact Lenses: These lenses could work in tandem with the wearable to provide real-time translations, navigation overlays, and environmental data directly into the wearer’s field of vision, enhancing the truth detection and memory capture features.

• Portable Privacy Camera: A discreet, clip-on camera accessory designed to capture high-quality video and audio recordings of important moments, with built-in privacy features ensuring recordings are only made with consent.

• Wireless Charging Dock: A stylish and functional dock for charging the wearable and its accessories, also serving as a digital hub for transferring and syncing data with personal and cloud storage.

• Environmental Sensor Clip: An additional clip-on device that monitors air quality, UV exposure, and other environmental factors, integrating this data into the wearer’s health monitoring and daily planning features.

• Memory Expansion Module: While the primary device would have substantial built-in storage, this accessory could offer additional cloud storage space or secure, encrypted physical storage for lifetime memory preservation.

• **Haptic Feedback Module: An accessory that provides physical feedback for notifications, guidance, or emotional wellness interventions, enhancing the user’s interaction with the digital and physical world.

A Little Snippet about Tech Empowering It:

Building EternaLink requires a multidisciplinary approach, integrating expertise from software engineering, AI and machine learning, hardware design, and data security.

As described in my earlier Blog, Firstly, the AI models powering EternaLink’s features, such as real-time language translation, health monitoring, and environmental sensing, must be optimized for low power consumption and minimal processing requirements without compromising performance. This involves employing model pruning to eliminate redundant or non-essential information in the AI algorithms, significantly reducing the model size while maintaining accuracy. Quantization would further compress these models by reducing the precision of the calculations, allowing for faster processing with less energy use.

Knowledge distillation would be another critical technique, wherein smaller, more efficient ‘student’ models learn to replicate the ‘teacher’ model’s behavior. This process ensures that EternaLink can perform complex tasks like emotional recognition, truth detection, and personalized AI assistance in real time, directly on the device, without needing constant cloud connectivity.

We’d need to design custom chips optimized for these compressed models, ensuring that EternaLink’s form factor remains sleek and wearable. These chips must also support secure, encrypted storage for the digital legacy features, safeguarding users’ data while providing the computational power needed for on-the-fly encryption and decryption.

Ethical Considerations and Control: The toughest question in front of me

Now Here's where this shit gets deep and a bit tricky. On one hand, it's super cool to think about leaving behind more than just photos and videos for our loved ones, almost like we're not gone. On the other hand, it makes you wonder, are we stepping on toes we shouldn't be? Messing with the big goodbye that everyone's supposed to eventually face?

It's like, yes, technically, the idea of mimicking our consciousness after we're out sounds groundbreaking. But then, it hits you – isn't there something sacred about the cycle of life and death? Are we trying to play a game that's meant for higher powers, trying to keep our digital selves roaming around when maybe, just maybe, it's time to let go and move on, whatever that means?

So, what do you think? Are we crossing a line here, or is this the next big leap in keeping memories alive? I'd love to hear where you stand on this.