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MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life

Posted by Zonk on from the now-we-need-a-hud-to-go-with-it dept.

Dixie_dean writes "Microsoft researchers are developing a way to enable you to capture every moment of your life and store it on your computer. The principal researcher with Microsoft's research arm, Gordon Bell, is developing a way for everyone to remember those special moments. 'The nine-year project, called MyLifeBits, has Bell supplementing his own memory by collecting as much information as he can about his life. He's trying to store a lifetime on his laptop. He's gone on to collect images of every Web page he's ever visited, television shows he's watched, recorded phone conversations, and images and audio from conference sessions, along with his e-mail and instant messages. Calculating that he saves about a gigabyte of information every month, he noted that he tries to only save photos of a megabyte or less. Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage." This is a project we've been talking about for a long time.

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  1. Cutting room floor by Justabit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just need to find a good editor for the film of my lifebits to play at my funeral and i"ll be happy.

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    "Persistance is Fertile" - Me. I can quote myself if I want to.
  2. It's about time! by Angst+Badger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, technology has caught up with narcissism.

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    Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
  3. We need to remember THIS! by SeeSp0tRun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what we need...
    To remember what all the pr0n sites we visited when we were 15...
    at age 70.

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    Something witty.
  4. Do NOT want by unformed · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I'm 53 years old and I'm carrying my grandkids on my lap, I want to be able tell them stories of the old days, like "You young whippersnappers think you have it tough? Back in my day, we couldn't just go out and buy unleaded gasoline. No sir! We had to scrape the lead out with our bare hands! And you think you have it tough with your complicated computers and what not. Back when I was a kid, we didn't even have computers to write with. We communicated entirely in ones and zeros ... written in PENCIL!

    Imagine what would happen if they could just look up the past and say "Ha ha, Grandma! You're lying!"

    Do not take away my golden years, dammit!