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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. Aren't they 24 years late? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To forget is human. To be human is important.

    1. Re:Aren't they 24 years late? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Well. They're to late to capture last week's bout of virulent diarrhoea. There's an episode I'm not soon liable to forget!

      That such moments will be forever trapped and preserved, like a fly in digital amber, is a notion that I relish with degree of satisfaction paralleled only by the joy I have in watching old episodes of The Waltons and the Golden Girls.

      Re-run runs...

      --
      "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
      Never been known to fail..."
  2. This sounds like a terrible idea... by drydirt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Unless you're one of those perpetually smiling people only seen in corporate clip art, life tends to be full of more unpleasant, uncomfortable, and completely banal events than positive. I could not imagine anything worse than watching high school all over again. I would probably want to strangle myself for being such a horrible, awkward geek.

    Really... How many moments of your life do you really want to relive? And wouldn't re-watching your most pleasant memories knowing what you know now dilute just how pleasant those memories were?