Gordon Bell Sci Am Feb 18 2007
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This is Gordon's entire article in Scientific American ... it appears in the print issue in March 2007; page 58.
 
Research Project: MyLifeBits.  <b>Microsoft Research</b> .
p 60
Vannevar Bush called his proposed device Memory Extender - microfilm and built into a desk with keybd and microphone.
p 61
Bush's key idea: "Memex should be designed to imitate the associative thinking of the human mind
"With on item in its grasph, it snaps instantly to the next thing that is suggested by association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate
wb of trails carried by the cells of the brain.
 
Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart developed  Bush's ideas .
 
Today $600 hard drive stores one TByte. enuf to store everything your read (all web pages, email, papers, books) all music,
8 hours of speech.
 
Within a decade can you'll be able to put same amt in cell phones flash memory while connecting wirelessly to a $100 4TB drive on your PC.
 
Also inexpensive sensors.
 
Also, put microphones and cameras anywhere, espec in cell phones. With voice recording to follow;
 
GPS device tracks location (photo page 62)</p>
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MyLifeBits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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