Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
Jim Gemmell, "Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything"
English | ISBN: 0525951342 | 2009 | 304 pages | EPUB | 320 KB
English | ISBN: 0525951342 | 2009 | 304 pages | EPUB | 320 KB
THE TOTAL RECALL REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLE.
IT WILL CHANGE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.
IT HAS ALREADY BEGUN.
What if you could remember everything? Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell draw on their experience from their MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research to explain the benefits to come from an earth-shaking and inevitable increase in electronic memories. In 1998 they began using Bell, a luminary in the computer world, as a test case, attempting to digitally record as much of his life as possible. Photos, letters, and memorabilia were scanned. Everything he did on his computer was captured. He wore an automatic camera, an arm-strap that logged his bio-metrics, and began recording telephone calls. This experiment, and the system they created to support it, put them at the center of a movement studying the creation and enjoyment of e-memories.
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