News Microsoft researcher converts his brain into 'e-memory'

[Brad]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/25/total.recall.microsoft.bell/index.html

I've always thought that this would be a great idea. Especially if you could aquire learning from 'e-memory.'

Of course this gives new meaning to the phrase "Blue screen of Death!" :lol:

 

[Ark]

I wonder how he'll feel when he looks up how much of his life he wasted stockpiling all that data instead of living.

 

[RisingFury]

I wonder how he'll fill in two weeks when someone breaks into his house and steals the hard drives.

 

[eveningsky339]

Hmmm, interesting... entirely useless, but interesting.

 

[RisingFury]

Hmmm, interesting... entirely useless, but interesting.

I think you just discovered Microsoft's new motto :lol:

 

[T.Neo]

I think you just discovered Microsoft's new motto :lol:

No, that is Apple's motto that they've had for years.

:rofl:

 

[escapetomsfate]

This was on James May's Big Ideas:

 

[SiberianTiger]

By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable.

I'm just wondering, who except psychiatrists might be interested in looking through such a stuff?

 

[Quick_Nick]

I wonder how he'll fill in two weeks when someone breaks into his house and steals the hard drives.

From the story, I'd say he has backups.

 

[lalbanof]

By about 2020, he says, our entire life histories will be online and searchable.

More and more, our lives go online. It's just that the data is not organized or summarized. More and more, we are invited to organize that data and put it online.

Maybe by then there will be ethics and a body of law surrounding unauthorized reconstruction of somebody's life. Maybe not. As long as nobody is forced to publish...

 

[Dig Gil]

I've ever thought about this but never thought it would be practical (not in a sense of usefulness, but of technological capability): AMAZING!
I want hear what happens when they try this since the birth of someone!

 

[Brad]

I want hear what happens when they try this since the birth of someone!

Talk about "Total Recall"... :speakcool:

 

[Suzy]

Oh, it's just recording stuff - I though it might be actual thought transferal! I guess that's a few years away yet.

 

[Brycesv1]

i love his last quote where he tries to sell it to the environmentalists "its the ultimate in green by the way"

 

[RisingFury]

From the story, I'd say he has backups.

Probably. The problem arises when all that personal info gets uploaded to the net.

 

[Andy44]

I'm just wondering, who except psychiatrists might be interested in looking through such a stuff?

Homeland Security, of course. Or whatever version of the KGB lives with you.

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So, when do we start uploading our memories into Cylons?

 

[eveningsky339]

So, when do we start uploading our memories into Cylons?

Why are you even asking? I've already started.

 

[Dig Gil]

Apart from my ignorance about "Cylons"...

Probably. The problem arises when all that personal info gets uploaded to the net.

Then don't upload that information. If Microsoft disagrees ask them to review thoroughly the Privacy Statement. If (somehow) the government disagrees then vote against it or something like that.
At any event you may as well choose to don't record your life.

 

[Notebook]

Cylons...By Your Command

N.

 

[garyw]

Does he record himself putting the data onto the computers? if so, isn't that something of a never ending loop?