http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/2495649.stm
Wednesday, 20 November, 2002, 21:51 GMT
Putting your life online (excerpts)
Soon you need never forget a special moment.
Microsoft researchers are working on ways to create a "back-up brain" that will do a much better job of containing and cataloguing every picture you take, document you write or conversation you record.
The scientists collaborating on the project believe that the database of your life could hold a vast array of items that are automatically catalogued and as easy to search as Google.
If it proves successful, the project could realise the dreams of hypertext visionary Vannevar Bush, who first floated the idea of a lifestore more than 50 years ago.
The MyLifeBits research group is based at Microsoft's research lab in San Francisco.
