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“Change what it means to be human”…

Friday, September 25th, 2009

That’s what Microsoft researcher, Gordon Bell, said about storing details of our lives on a computer instead of in our heads -  and, he’s serious!  Microsoft is actually working on this contraption called a SenseCam that hangs around your neck capturing everything in your daily life.  Then, you would just keep all of that information on a computer so you can relive it later.

Imagine if we could upload all the information in our brains to a computer (for some of us, that wouldn’t take very long).   We could relive it all and show our kids and grandkids what we were really like (I’d password protect a large portion of mine!).  And, of course, we’d have to be able to access this information at anytime using our cell phones.  We could find out where we left our keys and where our car is in the mall parking lot.  Wow!

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