Total Recall, Jim Gemmell
Total Recall, Jim Gemmell
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Total Recall
How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

Author: Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell

Narrator: John Haag

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/02/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Education


Synopsis

Authors Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell tap their experiences with the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research for this extraordinary book. What if you could remember everything? With today's technology, that notion becomes more realistic each day. Bell and Gemmell explain what it could all mean. "Readers will be wondering about the consequences . long after they put down this fascinating text ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annie on March 28, 2025

Oh to be a software engineer dude in San Francisco in the early 2000s with way too much time on your hands and unmatchable freak. The world was your oyster fr......more

Goodreads review by Mariam on August 27, 2017

"ماذا يحدث لو أن كل إنسان استطاع الوصول إلى جميع المعلومات التي تعرّض لها في حياته؟ لو كان ثمة طريقة لتذكر كل شيء كنا قد عرفناه من قبل، شخص مثلاً رأيته من قبل ورأيته مجدداً، ولكن عبثاً تحاول أن تتذكره من هذا الرجل.. هل رأيته من قبل؟ ومتى تحدثت إليه آخر مرة؟ الحقيقة إننا نتألم ونرتبك بسبب هذه المواقف......more

Goodreads review by April on February 23, 2018

Every year I dream of finally getting organized, going completely paperless and having all my files available at the tips of my fingertips. Then life happens. In this book, Gordon Bell attempts to record his entire life digitally and describes all of the amazing benefits of being able to recall mome......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on February 24, 2012

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell is leading the charge to record every waking moment of your life (and even your sleeping ones) to digital media. *Total Recall* investigates what it would be like to be able to record and access all the data about your life anywhere anytime. Among other experiments,......more

Goodreads review by William on August 30, 2011

Gordon Bell stands out as one of the most influential people in the history of computing. Unlike how it may seem at first glance, this book is not an infomercial for Microsoft. It is a series of well-meditated observations and extrapolations about what will happen to us as we're able to make the dig......more