What do you think about the idea to be able to
store every second of your life on a computer and then see moments with a quick search.
Gordon Bell, the head of
Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group, is the brain behind this technology which could become a reality in the future.
MyLifeBits or
surrogate memory as Bell cals it, consists of a '
Sense Cam' designed by Microsoft that takes pictures when it senses that the user may want a photo, sound recording hardware and a complicated software program that will help the user recall moments of his life using simple keywords.
A
1TB hard drive will easily hold all of the text documents, voice files and photos over the course of a person's life. But will only be able to store four hours of video a day for about a year.
But do we really need to remember all asptects of our life?written by Cristian L.