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    Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
    Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
    Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
    Audiobook7 hours

    Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

    Written by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell

    Narrated by John Haag

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell tap their experiences with the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research for this extraordinary book. What if you could remember everything? With today's technology, that notion becomes more realistic each day. Bell and Gemmell explain what it could all mean. "Readers will be wondering about the consequences . long after they put down this fascinating text ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 2, 2010
    ISBN9781440790546
    Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

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    • 4/5
      This is an interesting and thought-provoking book. I don't totally buy into the main idea - that one should, now that it's technically feasible, create and preserve a record of every moment of one's entire life. Do people really want to remember the bad as well as the good? Why waste gigabytes on recording the mundane and the trivial that are inevitably part of a normal life? But the technology will certainly help us to keep digital records of the highlights and whatever else we consider to be important or useful to preserve, whether it be documents, photos, data or whatever. For example, the capability for real-time monitoring of health and exercise is a major advance that has already evolved since this book was published. The book contains many helpful ideas on how to digitize and preserve various aspects of life, and one can simply adopt those which seem worthwhile and ignore the rest.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting book, it was slow at times, but it introduces a concept that become quite prevalent in computer science.
    • 3/5
      The technology currently exists to record every moment of one's life. This book looks at the benefits and the drawbacks of doing so. Benefits include the ability to recall the smallest details about our relationships, our health, and our learning. Drawbacks include legal considerations and never being able to escape the embarrassing and difficult memories. The book quickly begins to drag along after the introductory chapter. Many of the same ideas are presented over and over. While Bell's predictions certainly seem possible it is difficult to believe that they will be probably.
    • 4/5
      I used to have more of a soft spot for futurist books than I do now. I find that many of the gee-whiz predictions about how things will be lack plausibility, often due to the authors' limitations in understanding human nature.Bell's book however, besides being generally more practical and grounded in technological fact, seems to show fairly good insight into what people really need and want from technology. While the book starts out in starry-eyed mode, it improves quickly enough by delving into what is currently available in total information tech, and what seems just around the corner.Bell paints a fairly believable picture of how most information about our lives--from what we experience perceptually to all of the digital traces we leave--will all soon be cheaply stored and accessible. He makes a good case for thinking this is a positive advance, and much of the book is spent describing how we can already set the wheels of "total recall" in motion. The ideas are often presented based on Bell's own experiences developing the MyLifeBits system for Microsoft.People interested in the areas of "personal informatics" will have already though through some of these issues. I found plenty more food for thought here, though, and I especially valued the many reference to extant technologies and the ideas for new technologies. The book is a little repetitive and fairly thin overall, but as a monograph, it serves its purpose pretty well.
    • 4/5
      The book summarizes Bell et al. long-time research on acquiring and using digital memories, also as a personal experiment carried on by the authors. It is a good introduction to the different areas it tackles (storage, search, ...), the potential value for individuals and society, and also possible dangers. Still, it felt to me a bit short and too general to be considered as a foundation book. Although this judgement is very personal, I would have liked more detailed insights, deeper philosophical and scientific analysis of the subject. Anyway, judging that 'Total Recall' or 'Lifelogging' are most certainly going to happen, I guess those subjects will be addressed by further publications.