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An article in Computerworld outlines the work of one corporate researcher toward the idea of using computer storage technology to essentially archive one's entire life in a database amassing personal images, video, e-mails, phone conversations, printed documents, and more. The article interviews the researcher, who expects this to be a 10-year project, and who considers it to be something that, "we'll all be working toward." He's named the project "MyLifeBits." In his view, "You'll have memories that you can pass on from generation to generation and you pass on as much as you're willing to do. There's that aspect of being able to have a kind of immortality."
Is this an idea whose time has come, or an exercise in narcissism?
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