Total Recall event at Xerox PARC announced Sep 24

24 September 2009
4:00pm-5:00pm
George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC

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Publishers Weekly gives Total Recall a starred review

"This remarkable report from two brainy Microsoft researchers takes readers into the intersection of information technology and the human brain, opening up what could be a new frontier of human experience and knowledge."

Publishers Weekly, 8/31/2009

Computer History Museum Event: An Evening With Authors Jim Gemmell and Gordon Bell

The Computer History Museum Presents

Total Recall: An Evening with Authors, Jim Gemmell and Gordon Bell... How the E-Memory Revolution will Change Everything

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

6 p.m. Reception

7 p.m. Program

Wine for the reception provided by the Mountain Winery

LOCATION

The Computer History Museum

1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard

Mountain View, CA 94043

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Wired review of Total Recall

 Microsoft Researcher Records His Life in Data, by Steven Leckart. Wired 17.09

Excerpts:

Over the course of a lifetime, humans take in more information and memories than their brains can handle. Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell believes this to be a bug, not a feature...

In Total Recall, which Bell published with research partner Jim Gemmell, the 75-year-old describes how his archive has worked for him. ...

Bell's data dump is more than just a glorified photo album. By using e-memory as a surrogate for meat-based memory, he argues, we free our minds to engage in more creativity, learning, and innovation (sort of like Getting Things Done without all those darn Post-its). ...

BBC Digital Planet Interview: A life recorded in bits and bytes.

BBC describes the MyLifeBit project prior to Total Recall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8206971.stm

The 7 minute mp3 podcast interview, starts 21 minutes into the Digital Planet broadcast and can be downloaded from:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/digitalp_20090818-0830b.mp3

The interviewers make the nice observation that many of us, are already saving our lives digitally. All that is required is to not delete anything on our computers, a point we emphasize and re-emphasize in nearly every chapter of Total Recall.