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?

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

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???

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! ;)