Don’t Forget to Back Up Your Brain
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by MichaelFrom Fox News:
As any Baby Boomer will tell you, Americans have more information to cram into their memories than ever. Yet, as we age, our capacity for recall grows weaker.
But what if you could capture every waking moment of your entire life, store it on your computer and then recall digital snapshots of everything you’ve seen and heard with just a quick search?
Renowned computer scientist Gordon Bell, head of Microsoft’s Media Presence Research Group and founder of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, thinks he might be able to do just that.
He calls it a “surrogate memory,” and what he considers an early version of it even has an official name — MyLifeBits.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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December 9th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
‘We forget the things we want to remember, and
we remember the things we want to forget’.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:03 am
More important than what we’ve seen and heard is what we’ve thought, felt, said and done throughout our life.
A daily diary of these variables can actually change our life for the better. Especially if we are able to see and feel the result of our words and deeds on the people around us.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Although I suppose it is good to reflect, and its not technically a whole lot different to, say, a photo album…
November 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I’m slightly worried about this - people might be so distracted by literally living in the past that they forget about the present.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
How about this for a BVS - rather than Don’t forget use Remember to