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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. I thought Al Gore... by jeepliberty · · Score: 0, Troll
    A system like MyLifeBits was first suggested in 1945, when presidential technology adviser Vannevar Bush hatched the then farsighted idea of an infinite personal archive based on the emerging digital computer. His ideas also inspired the internet archive website.

    And I thought it was Al Gore who took credit for it!