My Life Bits
Engineers and scientists at Microsoft are looking for a way to create a backup brain, a surrogate memory, a way to bring total recall in the future.
"MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything."
I am a strong and enthusiastic advocate of Personal Legacy Archives, of memorializing, organizing and digitizing IMPORTANT STUFF.
But everything is WAY TOO MUCH. Total recall is much too much. There's some stuff I want to forget and a lot of stuff I want to get rid of.
I don't want to be able to "rehear every conversation" I had when I was 20 because I want to enjoy my life now.
It seems too much like the overstuffed closets of people who can't give or throw away a single item of clothing yet can't find anything to wear.
Discrimination between the important and the unnecessary is essential.
Posted by Jill Fallon on October 18, 2006 at 2:56 PM | Permalink | TrackBack
But that's exactly the problem, you see? How do you know in advance what's going to be important? Your "discrimination" begs the question.
Posted by: Brian H at May 2, 2007 12:26 PM
