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Total recall becomes a reality
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 21/04/2007
Technology to record what we see, say and surf is set to transform society, says Graham Jones
You don't have to be a world-renowned computer scientist or a Microsoft guinea pig to digitise your life. There are several ways in which you can create your own "Memex" to store your memories and log details, offloading your human memory to a digital space.
Memory man: Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has spent seven years using a digital recorder and camera to capture and process every last detail of his life
Already, for instance, many people take more photographs than they would have done in the past. Until the invention of digital cameras and mobile phones with camera capabilities, most people merely took pictures on holidays or at family events, like weddings. Now, many snap away with their mobiles or pocket cameras, storing the most mundane of shots forever. Keep them somewhere like Flickr (flickr.com) or PhotoBucket (photobucket.com) and you can access your memories from anywhere.
Similarly, cheap digital voice recorders mean you can record all your meetings, saving the audio files and even converting them to text using speech-to-text software available in high-street computer stores. Some people do the same with handheld computers and PDAs that allow them to record conversations easily.
With a blog, such as Blogger (blogger.com), Livejournal (livejournal.com), MySpace (myspace.com), Bebo (bebo.com) or Twitter (twitter.com), you can record a journal of your daily life, noting down even the minutest little details. You could even keep a video blog on YouTube (youtube.com). If you don't want to do that publicly there is a plethora of "journaling" software available, such as Microsoft Notes.
You can create your own memory bank of video, sound and other data at your own MySpace page. You can store your contacts list at somewhere like MyYahoo! (my.yahoo.com) And if you're worried you might forget any legal aspects of your life, such as your National Insurance details, the PAOGA service (paoga.com) lets you securely store important documents and information online.
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Taken together, such tools mean you can store your life in cyberspace and recall information and visual records at the click of a mouse. All you would need is your own dedicated web page that connected all the bits and pieces of your life together. You could then access your memories wherever and whenever you wished. GJ Gordon Bell has a perfect memory, which isn't bad for a man of 72. In fact, you can ask him about a phone call made five years ago and he can let you know, word for word, the exact conversation. Want to know what coffee cup he drank from at a meeting in 2001? He can tell you and describe it with complete accuracy.
Bell can quickly and easily recall any aspect of his life and work for the past seven years. Sounds a remarkable fellow, doesn't he? But other than the fact that he is a highly qualified computer scientist he is no different to you or me - except for one thing. Bell uses a range of technologies to record everything he does, every day. The result is that everything he has done in the past seven years - as well as his lifetime's work - is stored digitally and is therefore immediately accessible. Gordon Bell is a "lifelogger".
"It allows the filing of everything that can be accessed or transmitted," says Bell.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/04/21/dlrecall21.xml
Total recall becomes a reality
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 21/04/2007
Technology to record what we see, say and surf is set to transform society, says Graham Jones
You don't have to be a world-renowned computer scientist or a Microsoft guinea pig to digitise your life. There are several ways in which you can create your own "Memex" to store your memories and log details, offloading your human memory to a digital space.
Memory man: Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has spent seven years using a digital recorder and camera to capture and process every last detail of his life
Already, for instance, many people take more photographs than they would have done in the past. Until the invention of digital cameras and mobile phones with camera capabilities, most people merely took pictures on holidays or at family events, like weddings. Now, many snap away with their mobiles or pocket cameras, storing the most mundane of shots forever. Keep them somewhere like Flickr (flickr.com) or PhotoBucket (photobucket.com) and you can access your memories from anywhere.
Similarly, cheap digital voice recorders mean you can record all your meetings, saving the audio files and even converting them to text using speech-to-text software available in high-street computer stores. Some people do the same with handheld computers and PDAs that allow them to record conversations easily.
With a blog, such as Blogger (blogger.com), Livejournal (livejournal.com), MySpace (myspace.com), Bebo (bebo.com) or Twitter (twitter.com), you can record a journal of your daily life, noting down even the minutest little details. You could even keep a video blog on YouTube (youtube.com). If you don't want to do that publicly there is a plethora of "journaling" software available, such as Microsoft Notes.
You can create your own memory bank of video, sound and other data at your own MySpace page. You can store your contacts list at somewhere like MyYahoo! (my.yahoo.com) And if you're worried you might forget any legal aspects of your life, such as your National Insurance details, the PAOGA service (paoga.com) lets you securely store important documents and information online.
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Taken together, such tools mean you can store your life in cyberspace and recall information and visual records at the click of a mouse. All you would need is your own dedicated web page that connected all the bits and pieces of your life together. You could then access your memories wherever and whenever you wished. GJ Gordon Bell has a perfect memory, which isn't bad for a man of 72. In fact, you can ask him about a phone call made five years ago and he can let you know, word for word, the exact conversation. Want to know what coffee cup he drank from at a meeting in 2001? He can tell you and describe it with complete accuracy.
Bell can quickly and easily recall any aspect of his life and work for the past seven years. Sounds a remarkable fellow, doesn't he? But other than the fact that he is a highly qualified computer scientist he is no different to you or me - except for one thing. Bell uses a range of technologies to record everything he does, every day. The result is that everything he has done in the past seven years - as well as his lifetime's work - is stored digitally and is therefore immediately accessible. Gordon Bell is a "lifelogger".
"It allows the filing of everything that can be accessed or transmitted," says Bell.
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