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Last month Randi Zuckerberg,strapless wedding dress Facebook's former marketing director, enthused about a trendy app to "crowdsource absolutely every decision in your life". Called Seesaw, the app lets you run instant polls of your friends and ask for advice on anything: what wedding dress to buy, what latte drink to order and soon, perhaps, what political candidate to support. 

Seesaw offers an interesting twist on how we think about feedback and failure. It used to be that we bought things to impress our friends, fully aware that they might not like our purchases. Now this logic is inverted: If something impresses our friends, we buy it. The risks of rejection have been minimised; we know well in advance how many Facebook "likes" our every decision would accumulate. 

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley. Whatever their contribution to our maturity as human beings, decisions also bring out pain and, faced with a choice between maturity and pain-minimisation, Silicon Valley has chosen the latter — perhaps as a result of yet another instant poll. 

The only exception to the pain-minimisation rule is when pain — or at least discomfort — must be induced to ensure that we behave honestly and consistently. 

Take Google Glass, the company's overhyped "smart glasses", which can automatically snap photos of everything we see and store them for posterity. To some, this can finally solve the problem of forgetting, a long-time ambition of many geeks,Beautiful Bridesmaids Dresses who have also been developing stamp-size cameras that can be worn on the lapel of a jacket and snap a picture — at set intervals of time — of things around us. 

This idea of obliterating forgetting was laid out by the visionary Microsoft computer scientist Gordon Bell in his highly provocative 2009 book, written with Jim Gemmell, Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything. 

Bell promised that new recording technologies would provide us with "enhanced self-insight, the ability to relive one's own life story in Proustian detail, the freedom to memorise less and think creatively more". (Alas, "Proustian" is an inapt adjective: The writer actually opposed what he called a "simple cinematographic vision", which he feared treated memory as nothing but the accumulation of facts, rather than a complex interplay of sensory experiences and storytelling.) 

For Bell, these always-on recording devices can make us aware of our faults, of our inconsistencies, of the many lies we tell ourselves and others. 

"Successful people don't shy away from the honest record," he wrote. "Imagine being confronted with the actual amount of time you spend with your daughter rather than your rosy accounting of it. Or having your eyes opened to how truly abrasive you were in a conversation." Doctor Freud, meet the iFreud!