Your Life On a Hard Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 27, 2006 @08:51AM from the 1.7-terabytes-and-nothing-on dept.

Iddo Genuth writes to point us to his The Future of Things blog, where he has put up a rumination on the idea of recording one's whole life, beginning with Vannevar Bush's 1945 "Memex" (from the same essay in which he envisioned digital photography and advanced electronic computers). This serves as introduction to an interview with Microsoft Research's Gordon Bell, arguably the first man to attempt recording (most of) his life. From TFoT: "If humans may be viewed as the sum total of their memories, then at our doorstep may be a life changing revolution: the ability to store one's entire life experiences on an accessible and easily searchable file. In this article, we examine this idea, as well as some of the problems involved in its application."

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Re:The Final Cut by nege · 2006-09-27 09:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Good thing we might be able to record all that soon."

Great, another reason for the *IAA's to sue me! :(
Re:I did this by rts008 · 2006-09-27 09:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Moderaters must be asleep at the wheel to let this one pass unscathed!

LOL! Kudos for that good chuckle.

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Re:The Final Cut by hoggoth · 2006-09-27 09:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> what a waste of space. How much of my life will I spend watching TV. Good thing we might be able to record all that soon...

So the future will entail me watching a video of me watching a video of me watching a video of me.
Sounds exciting.

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