MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life

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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[El Lobo]

Come on...This is /. We can do better. It's about MS so we need some bash... Lets see... maybe it's an old idea? Or maybe it's all about money and a big fuck to the OS community? Naaah.. Ohh I know, maybe it's a conspiration to get a monopoly in the market of memories (TM)? Nahhh.. Oh maybe they are trying to destabilize Linuzzz ?... Come on people, maybe some jokes about chairs, monopolies or rotten Abbles can help? After all, we are better than "them" aren't we?

Re:MyLifeStore for boring people

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Unfortunately, every few years the iSimulator breaks and their whole iLifeStory is lost because their Life Rights Management stops them transferring it to new hardware. On the bright side, this does mean you can go back and buy a new iLife where you never made that mistake with the not-really-that-cute girl in your last year of high school.