Offloading Human Memory to the Cloud

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by jordancooper • 16 years ago

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sliverstorm2• 16 years ago

I'm still too busy being wow'd by the implications of color video and widespread photography. Of my grandparents, I have a few black-and-white's from their late 20's. Of my parents, a couple off-color's from their early 20's.

My decedents (if I have any) will have full, accurate color video and photo from a ton of points in my life.

Forget recording who I was and what I did- it still blows my mind to imagine 'knowing' your parents as they were when they were young. Images are the first step to this; they make the past real.

jordancooper• 16 years ago

images are a big piece, but what i'm suggesting is that it will get to a point where you can actually interact with your dead grandparents. think about predictive AI on these data sets... it's going to be way more rich than images alone...

sliverstorm2• 16 years ago

You're right on the mark there, I just haven't even gotten used to the idea of images yet!

hikari17• 16 years ago

Though several startups are addressing this area, I like the timeline approach taken by Eternos (http://beta.eternos.com)

[Disclaimer: I've blogged enthusiastically about them in the past and we've discussed a possible advisory role.]

mark_l_watson• 16 years ago

My Dad, in his late 80s, is redoing the Watson family video. About 1 hour of media. Dad (still a member of the US National Academy of Science) has a quirky sense of humor: he likes to mix in Poser 3D animations with his videos so his favorite virtual character, 'Hank' an acerbic gorilla, keeps chiming in to my family history. Fortunately, Roger Ebert will never see this :-)

Offloading Human Memory to the Cloud

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