I personally can’t wait to ask to recall something I saw before but can’t quite remember where.

Pretty soon I won’t even need biological memory.

i added a minutely scrot cronjob about a year ago and haven't used it once. remembering "that website i was on last week" is apparently not a real problem I was having

if it ran entirely on the local machine and didn't send information back to Microsoft I think people would be far more accepting of it.

That's exactly what recall was and is

You missed the "for now" at the end of that sentence.