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Backup Your Life on a DVD

Posted by michael on from the you-do-make-backups,-right dept.

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."

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  1. Linus Torvalds == Heinrich Himmler ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hey!

    You people realized that Linus Torvalds looks similar to Heinrich Himmler?

  2. 8th post!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or so

  3. Another article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is a related article on Sunpoint

  4. Re:Heres a sig i couldn't use! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are speling(sp) lactose wrong in your sig.

  5. Re:first post! by deathcloset · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, at least slashdot will keep a record of it!

  6. Error by Omkar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Begin Life_Transfer
    Error 345KJH: Life not found
    Abort, Retry, Fail?

  7. OMG! by ScannerBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That means I can remember every pr0n movie on one disk! That will save me tons of HD space!

    Oh, 30 seconds, but I want it now! - Homer Jay Simpson

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  8. Re:may be a crazy idea by waspleg · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    if your wife is that icy of a bitch i feel for you, really

  9. what's the capacity of the brain? by ryochiji · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Has anyone done studies on the capacity of the brain in terms of digital storage? Is it even possible?

    I'm no specialist in the area, but it seems like the brain uses some funky compression and associative data structures. It's awefully good at recognizing patterns and searching for data based on association, but isn't really good at storing certain types of data (which is why witnesses to crimes are so darn unreliable).

    Storing letters and pictures is one thing, but memory? I'm skeptical on this one.

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