Total Recall: How the e-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

Total recall covers five aspects of the use of an e-memory: to generally assist human memory, provide records for professional and home work, learning, health, and ultimately aid immortality. Gordon Bell, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley shares his genius!

MyLifeBits is a project that began in 1998 to encode and store everything in a person's life stimulated my Vannevar Bush's 1947 article on Memex, and Bill Gates' statement that "someday we will be able to store everything we see and hear". What started as a project for capturing books and papers evolved to art, correspondence and communication, music, photos, video, health information, and physical memorabilia-indeed anything that could be encoded in an e-Memory. In addition to information coming via computers and cell phones, capture has included several thousand photos a day coming via the Cambridge Microsoft Research wearable SenseCam, TV programs, stress, and heart rate. In 2005, it became clear that such a system is a transaction processing database for digitally logging all personal activities and events from a keystroke to a photo!

Total Recall covers five aspects of the use of an e-Memory: to generally assist human memory, provide records for professional and home work, learning, health, and ultimately aid immortality. This inevitable course in the development of personal computing is based on three technologies: pervasive information capture devices e.g. computers, cell phones, GPS, health monitors; Terabyte stores that can retain a person's life; and software to store, organize, retrieve, and display life's information content in useful ways.

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