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on 2009-09-26
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But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences.
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By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable. Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.
This link has been bookmarked by 11 people . It was first bookmarked on 25 Sep 2009, by Michael De Nola.
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Gary BrownePortfolio X-treme
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In sum, this mountain of data -- more than 350 gigabytes worth, not including the streaming audio and video -- is a replica of Bell's biological memory. It's actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized "e-memory" never forgets. It's like having a multimedia transcript of your life.
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M McBride(CNN) -- For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers -- where he knows it will be safe.
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Mario A Núñez"multimedia transcript of your life"
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You are a librarian for your life
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But Bell, who is 75 years old, takes the idea of digital memory to a sci-fi-esque extreme. He carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to capture his conversations, commutes, trips and experiences.
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By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable. Location-aware smartphones and inexpensive digital memory storage in the "cloud" of the Internet make the transition possible and inevitable.
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By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable.
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Jeremy BenneshSci Fi looks like it's close to reality, this guy is logging his whole'memory' onto a hard drive.
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