http://research.microsoft.com/barc/MediaPresence/MyLifeBits.aspx
Strange how life can imitate the movie screen like this. This sounds eerily like the Robin William film “The Final Cut”.
However, according to one of the original articles,
“Bell figures one could store everything about his life, from start to finish, using a terabyte of storage.”
One from the “why didn’t I think of THAT” department: a fisheye lens from a standard peephole just like in your front door. You can pick up a peephole (sans door) for around $10 at most hardware stores and be shooting cool ultra-wide-angle, amusingly distorted images with your point-and-shoot digicam in the time it takes to simply tape it to your lens.
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His math demonstrates how much of a life you don’t have if you could store the whole thing only in a single terabyte.
Let’s do the math together, shall we:
1 terabyte (1024x1024x1024x1024)
divided by 80 year lifespan
= 13743895347.2 bytes
divided by 364 days
37,654,507 bytes/day
16 waking hours/day
2,353,407 bytes
divided by 60 minutes
39,223 bytes/minute
divided by 60 seconds/minute
653 bytes/second.