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Your Life, Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity Kindle Edition

by Gordon Bell (Author), Jim Gemmell (Author), Bill Gates (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
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"A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."
-Guy L. Tribble, Apple, Inc.

Tech luminary, Gordon Bell, and Jim Gemmell unveil a guide to the next digital revolution. Our daily life started becoming digital a decade ago. Now much of what we do is digitally recorded and accessible. This trend won't stop. And the benefits are astonishing.

Based on their own research Bell and Gemmell explain the ever- increasing access to electronic personal memories-both "cloud" services such as Facebook and huge personal hardrives. Using Bell as a test case, the two digitally uploaded everything-photos, computer activity, biometrics-and explored systems that could best store the vast amounts of data and make it accessible. The result? An amazing enhancement of human experience from health and education to productivity and just reminiscing about good times. And then, when you are gone, your memories, your life will still be accessible for your grandchildren...

Your Life, Uploaded is an invaluable guide to taking advantage of new technology that will fascinate and inspire techies, business people, and baby boomers alike.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-0452296565
  2. Publisher
    Plume
  3. Publication date
    October 26, 2010
  4. Language
    English
  5. File size
    573 KB
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GORDON BELL, one of the world’s preeminent computer scientists, is a principal researcher at Microsoft. He lives in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia.
JIM GEMMELL, senior researcher at Microsoft, has been working with Bell since 1995. He lives in San Francisco.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0043EV52G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Plume (October 26, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 26, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 573 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
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Jim Gemmell

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Jim Gemmell is a managing director at Ernst & Young. He was previously the Chief Technology Officer of Aural Analytics, the CTO/Co-Founder of Trōv, and Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Jim has numerous scholarly publications on life-logging, multimedia, networking, and video-conferencing. His work his work at Microsoft translated into features in Windows, Bing, and Xbox..

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Bob Stanke
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read for Quantified Selfers and Self Trackers
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
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If you are interested in the Qunatified Self movement or any kind of self tracking, this book is a great read, despite it being a little dated now.
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Eric Jain
4.0 out of 5 stars Your Life, Logged
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2015
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MyLifeBits is an interesting, and (at the time) pioneering project. This book explains the authors' thinking behind the project. Some of the writing may be dated, as it predates the current "Quantified Self" and "Internet of Things" craze, but much of it is still very relevant: Aggregating and making good use of all your data is still far from being a solved problem, and the concerns about privacy remain unchanged.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2014
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Interesting read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Almost Made the Same Mistake!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2010
I had originally purchased the Kindle book "Total Recall" and based on the write-ups that I had seen I thought that it was a sequel to the original book. Fortunately, I read the previous review before I downloaded it. If you haven't purchased the original version 'Total Recall', I highly recommend it.
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Kim Lacey
1.0 out of 5 stars Previously published as Total Recall!
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2010
This is a great book, but just beware that it's a reprint of last year's Total Recall. Same book, different title! I didn't know this until I downloaded the Kindle version and it's stated on the first title page. Save your money if you've already purchased/read Total Recall.
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Mr Cathal G Gurrin
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2021
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Insightful read from Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell. The vision here is compelling and likely to come to pass.
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Charles Martel
4.0 out of 5 stars Par le gourou du LifeLogging lui-même
Reviewed in France on September 6, 2013
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Gordon Bell expose son expérience de LifeLogger en tant que chercheur chez Microsoft, et nous donne des idées pour organiser nous-mêmes la digitalisation de notre quotidien et tendre vers le "Total Control" de notre e-memory. Sans doute un concept d'avenir dont on va entendre de plus en plus parler, il n'y a qu'à voir la mode actuelle du "Quantified Self", ce n'est que le début !
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