This is your brain on digits
ABC News | at | by Mike
Two thousand years from now future generations may be studying everything about your daily life - from your choice of breakfast cereal to the naughty Web sites you perused today. A new Microsoft research project, called MyLifeBits, is designed to record every aspect of a person's life to a hard drive - from photos and home videos to phone calls made, e-mail sent, and Web pages visited. "This is a journey that we're taking. It became really a quest to essentially cyberize everything," says Gordon Bell, a pioneer in the field of personal computers who is heading up MyLifeBits. "I want to ... essentially use it as my surrogate memory."