Don't Forget to Back Up Your Brain


	Don't Forget to Back Up Your Brain

wildcat

11-20-2007 10:23 AM

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technology, memory, brain, backup, surrogate memory

wildcat says:

We rely on our hard drives for saving our music, photographs, e-mails and videos — so perhaps life-logging software and memory prosthetics are simply the next stage in the evolution of our relationship to the computer.

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11-20-2007 2:34 PM

debbyski

I am in desperate need of a defrag, wildcat!

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