Thursday, April 10, 2008

Total Recall: Storing every life memory in a surrogate brain

Total Recall: Storing every life memory in a surrogate brain: "April 2, 2008 (Computerworld) Remember walking in to start your first job out of college? Or that diner you stopped in when you were on a road trip with your friends? The way the sky looked when you made that one perfect ski run, or the song that was playing when your daughter took her first step?
Gordon Bell, a longtime veteran of the IT industry and now principal researcher at Microsoft Corp.'s research arm, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments.
Actually, Bell himself wants to remember -- well, everything.
With memories piling up and continually slipping away, Bell is working to capture every moment of his life, so he can store it on his computer -- a Dell laptop with a dual-core processor. He wants the ability to pull up any picture, phone call, e-mail or conversation any time he wants."



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