Digital Age May Bring Total Recall in Future
From: CNN.com - 10/17/2006
By: Taylor Gandossy

For the past five years, Microsoft computer engineer Gordon Bell has headed a
project to create a new digital device that would enable users to record
every moment of their life, and then search its database whenever they want
to review a paper, fax, phone call, photograph, movie, Web site, IM
conversation, or television or radio transcript. "The interim objective is to
make this kind of system available, to gradually put these kinds of
capabilities in all of our PCs," says Bell. He believes people would be
interested in having such a surrogate memory because it would allow them to
preserve analog and digital information forever. Q-Tech co-founder Sunil
Vemuri is also focusing on a memory solution, but he is developing technology
that would allow existing cell phones, computers, and other communications
devices to serve as the memory aid. "Because you know, people carry mobile
phones all the time, and I haven't heard of anyone lately calling it
intrusive," says Vemuri. People would not be able to use his technology to
find missing keys, a remote control, or other physical objects. Though Vemuri
attempts to address concerns about privacy, security is as much a pressing
issue for such recording devices. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/10/16/explorers.memory/

Links:
Gordon Bell
http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell

MyLifeBits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits

Microsoft Wants to Create Digital Backup of Your Life
http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2006/10/microsoft_wants_to_create_digi.php

Sunil Vemuri's homepage
http://web.media.mit.edu/~vemuri/

Q-Tech
http://www.qtechinc.com/