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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. first post! by cornjchob · · Score: -1, Troll

    will the dvd include my badassness?

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    We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
  2. This was on slashdot before... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I seem to remember a story about this a year and a half ago... (now where was that URL...)...hmm...

    oh, nevermind...

  3. But by teks0r · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would they back me up on DVD-RW or DVD+RW?

  4. wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    THIS IS MY RIFLE, there are many rifles....

    damn, I don't know the rest. where's the guy that keeps posting this? it's funny.
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  5. uh huh by jtougas · · Score: -1, Troll

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

  6. 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!