Two advocates of saving memories
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Loading ...Taylor Gandossy (CNN) reports in his Oct 16, 2006 article about 2 remarcable memory archiving projects:
Digital age may bring total recall in future
The first project -MyLifeBits- already in its 5th year comes from Microsoft and aims at delivering a “surogate memory” – a system to record, digitize and archive everything we hear, see, etc. An interim objective will be to make the system available and then to gradually make it present in all PCs.
There is no mention of long term archiving in the article but obviously this is a technical issue Microsoft is well positioned to address. Here is a link to MyLifeBits website:
The second project, similar but at a smaller scale, comes from Sunil Vemuri, a doctoral student at MIT who focused on developing a device to combat memory problems. Apparently a short term issue although such personal devices might work well for capturing data to be stored in a larger long term archive like MS MyLifeBits.
Link to QTech Inc website:
Both Project leaders Gordon Bell (Microsoft) and Sunil Vemuri (QTech) acknowledge privacy concerns and expect society and laws to adjust to these sort of new technological realities.
When will all these happen?
The answer to this question will show how much we, as individuals and society, value our memories, our loved ones, our values and our lifes.
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