Backup Your Life on a DVD

matt20 writes "I've often wondered what it would take to condense the essence of my life and put it in a searchable format. Well, it looks like that may become a reality. Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write - in fact your every memory and experience - into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything. Here is the article found in New Scientist."

Comments

redundant

[cr@ckwhore]

Sounds kinda redudant to me ... isn't this what the new dept. of homeland security is going to do?

Re:redundant

[hunterellinger]

When I worked on a left-wing paper in the '70s, we used to say that we didn't mind the FBI spies and bugs, but we felt that they should at least be willing to provide us copies of the minutes of our staff meetings.

My car keys?

[anonymousman77]

Will it remember where I put my @#$!$ car keys?

Re:My car keys?

[netsharc]

Searched the web for my car keys.
Results 1 - 10 of about 651,000. Search took 0.37 seconds.

Which one is it?

Oh no

[shadowlight1]

Now I'll NEVER be able to forget my ex-girlfriend!

But.

[AUsBandit]

What if I forget where I put the dvd?

What do you need a DVD for?

[Gheesh]

Since I have no life, mine could probably fit into a 3.5" floppy

Woohoo!

[HugoQuixote]

Does this mean I'll be able to bring out extended special editions? Deleted scenes could be amusing... Out-takes and a gag reel! Woohoo!

I could get my folks to do Director's Commentary... ^_^

The most reliable one!

[krazyninja]

Taken from the article=> ....build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC... .
Umm....Why do I feel that was one sarcastic comment in the article???

Sorry but....

[Inexile2002]

and instead build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC.

Seriously?

Do the guys at Microsoft seriously consider the PC to be a most reliable of entities? Man, you think after years of running Windows you'd know better.

As for the database, that sounds like it would be an enormous amount of work to keep up, and wouldn't be that useful day to day unless you were carrying it with you. I forget to take pictures, how am I going to remember to upload the pictures I actually take? And has anyone ever gone back and reread their old email...BORING... unless you're narsisistic who cares what you posted on /. two years ago.

This thing sounds good in theory, but in practice people just are not taking that many pictures or writing that many memorable letters. This will be a product for the vain, the famous and the rich who don't know what else to spend their money on.
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Re:project is called MyLifeBits

[Roofus]

project is called MyLifeBits

That's cool. I'm about to start my own project, called MyLifeBites. It'll be a focus group helping nerdy Slashdotters come to grips with the fact that there's nothing in their lives worth backing up.

Re:And I do what with it?

[chrisos]

I could actually refute all the assertions my ex-wife used to make, where she used to say things like:

"But you said X on that Saturday night eight months ago"

(Where X was the last thing I would ever say/admit/believe.)

Be warned, women in high places will never alow this technology to be used by men, there is a potential for blokes in arguments to be proven right! ;)