Gordon Bell (1) (1934–)
Autor(a) de Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1934-08-19
- Sexo
- male
- Organizações
- National Science Foundation
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow, 1994)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, 1983)
ACM (Fellow, 1994)
IEEE (Fellow, 1974)
National Academy of Engineering (1977) (mostrar todas 9)
National Academy of Science (2007)
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Fellow, 2009)
The Computer History Museum (Founder) - Premiações
- John von Neumann Medal (1992)
Vladimir Karapetoff Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
National Medal of Technology (1991)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 219
- Popularidade
- #102,099
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 24
- Idiomas
- 5
As a boy I dreamed of having a computer in the basement. I imagined that I could put it together from scrap parts. I had no idea how I could pay for the air conditioning bill, but knew that I had to do it. I imagined that it could be doing complex computations that would not be practical without a computer, and that it could work for hours or days on those problems while I was off doing other things.
The author of this book has a dream and he is living his dream, so I read with great interest his account of Total Recall, and MyLifeBits. I wondered if I could obtain a copy of the hardware/software that he is using. But after a bit of an Internet search I concluded that it does not exist as a commercial product.
The first two sections of the book detail his experiences in getting his pictures, email, paper documents, and electronic records from various places, including at least one former place of employment, all into his storage and recall system.
In the third and last section of the book, he admits that there are some concerns; data loss, backup, the mass of data storage require, but even more importantly, some concerns about recording and keeping everything. Privacy concerns of our own selves, and out of respect for others are part of it. Another part of it is that there are some things that we would rather forget because they are embarrassing, or unpleasant, or compromising. As a technologist, he feels that these problems are solvable. My feeling is that these problems will cause the adoption of this kind of technology to be slow.
It is easy to have the impression that the adoption of the recent technologies, such as the Internet was quite rapid, but like so many other technologies, it takes many years from inception, to early adopters, to easily useable, and then to mainstream. What he describes requires both hardware and software, which increases the cost, and they are not yet available in a single package, so, it will be quite a few years for this to become common.
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