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Backing Up Your Brain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the error-document-not-found dept.

couch_warrior writes "Microsoft is now working on a system that will back up the contents of your brain. The pilot project lacks a direct brain interface, but "MyLifeBits" will provide a simulacrum of actual memories. No mention is made as to whether Microsoft will claim to own the digital rights to the content of your life, or what license fees you will have to pay to access your own memories." Honestly this looks like a bunch of hooey to me, but I figured others would be better suited to say.

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  1. Moronic exxagerration by gurps_npc · · Score: 4, Informative
    Basically, what this guy wants to do is to have you carry a videocamera around 100% of the time, always on. Then they have software to analyze what it hears/says.

    He describes this as your memory, as an attempt to make it seem important instead of silly.

    It is this artifical record he is talking about, not your real memory.

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  2. It's real by everphilski · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't a brain backup device, it's a little recorder that you wear around your neck. It takes snapshots throughout the day and records sound. The software on the computer also allows for archival of various documents, etc. Stuff gets associated and it essentially becomes a surrogate memory.

    A good, extensive writeup can be found in Fast Company. The original article is over half a year old and this idea from Gordon Bell has been known for years: he started working on this project in 1995.

    Bunch of drama queens on slashdot talking about "omgz vaporware" "Microsoft doign what neuroscience cant? omgz" Read the goddamned article, not the FUD summary.

  3. Re:You just don't get it by uglyduckling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, and there is another thing to consider, slashdot is NOT a news site.

    Look up... a little bit more... there it is: "NEWS FOR NERDS. STUFF THAT MATTERS."

  4. Brain Backup vs NTBackup by oatworm · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're working on backing up our brains? Great! In the meantime, let me know when they actually get a backup solution for Windows Server that doesn't make me want to compulsively attempt to kill myself from alcohol poisoning after using it.

    P.S. Whose idea was it to include Active Directory with System State and not let you restore one without the other, hmm? Maybe I don't WANT to restore the rest of my registry.

  5. http://how-to-spell-ridiculous.com/ by ozydingo · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://how-to-spell-ridiculous.com/