Total Recall. Really.
Humans naturally have the power to remember almost two bits of information per second, or a few hundred megabytes over a lifetime. Compared with a DVD movie, which holds up to 17 gigabytes, that’s nothing. Worse, you might easily recall the 40-year-old dialogue from Hogan’s Heroes yet forget your mom’s birthday. Or memorize reams of sports stats while spacing out on work you completed just last week.
Oh, that is so untrue. 40-year-old commercial jingles, maybe, but Mom’s birth date is … a discernible amount more important than Hogan’s Heroes. I mean, really …
The article is about efforts to (a) totally record stuff that a person encounters in his life, and, much more importantly and difficultly (b) retrieve the information back.
If the bugs get worked out — yeah, I could see doing that.
(via GeekPress)
You forgot TV theme songs. ;P
Well, I forgot “I Love Lucy,” too. 🙂