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Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write — in fact your every memory and experience— into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything, New Scientist can reveal. It is part of a curious venture dubbed the MyLifeBits project, in which engineers at Microsoft’s Media Presence lab in San Francisco are aiming to build multimedia databases that chronicle people’s life events and make them searchable. “Imagine being able to run a googly-like search on your life,”says Gordon Bell, one of the developers.
《新科學(xué)家》揭示：工程師正在研制一種軟件，它可加載你的每張相片和你寫的每封信—事實(shí)上，你的每一段回憶和履歷都被放進(jìn)一個(gè)永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)健忘任何事務(wù)的代辦代庖大腦里。它是一個(gè)被稱作“我的糊口片段”怪異創(chuàng)業(yè)項(xiàng)目的一部門， 在這個(gè)項(xiàng)目中，舊金山的微軟媒體嘗試室的工程師正致力于成立多媒體數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)用來(lái)記實(shí)人們糊口事務(wù)而且便于人們查找。“想像你能夠瞪視核辦你曾履歷的糊口，” 開發(fā)商之一Gordon Bell說。
The motivation? Microsoft argues that our memories often deceive us: experiences get exaggerated, we muddle the timing of events and simply forget stuff. Much better, says the firm, to junk such unreliable interpretations and instead build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC.
研制該軟件的念頭是什么? 微軟公司指出：我們的記憶時(shí)常棍騙我們，我們不單強(qiáng)調(diào)履歷，還搞錯(cuò)事務(wù)發(fā)生的時(shí)刻，而且完全健忘具體細(xì)節(jié)。公司說：有了這種軟件良多若干好多了，人們可以扔失蹤這類不成靠的詮釋，改成在最靠得住的實(shí)體—小我計(jì)較機(jī)上成立起忠厚的記憶。網(wǎng)
Bell and his colleagues developed MyLifeBits as a surrogate brain to solve what they call the “giant shoebox problem”.“In a giant shoebox full of photos, it’s hard to find what you are looking for,”says Microsoft’s Jim Gemmell. Add to this the reels of home movies, videotapes, bundles of letters and documents we file away, and remembering what we have, let alone finding it, becomes a major headache.
Bell和他的同事研制了“我的糊口片段”軟件系統(tǒng)，把它作為代辦代庖大腦，用來(lái)解決他們稱作“復(fù)雜的鞋盒似的問題”.“在復(fù)雜的裝滿相片的鞋盒中，很難發(fā)現(xiàn)你想找的工具，”微軟的Jim Gemmell 說。加上我們一盤盤的家庭片子、錄像帶的膠片以及成捆的信件和文件，我們?cè)趯ふ夜ぞ邥r(shí)費(fèi)勁地回憶我們擁有的工具，不說能夠找到它，尋找工具的整個(gè)過程簡(jiǎn)直釀成了不小的一個(gè)麻煩。
Logging life 記實(shí)糊口
By the time he speaks at December's Association for Computing Machinery Multimedia conference in Juan Les Pins, France, Bell says he will have logged everything he possibly can onto his MyLifeBits database.
到十二月Bell在法國(guó)Juan Les Pins召開計(jì)較機(jī)多媒體味議上講話時(shí)， 他說他將盡可能把每件事記其實(shí)"我的糊口片段"數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)上。
Apart from official documents like his passport, he will post everything from letters and photos to home videos and work documents. All his email is automatically saved on the system, as is anything he reads or buys online. He has also started recording phone conversations and meetings to store as audio files. The privacy and corporate security risks are clear.
除了像他的護(hù)照這樣官方文件之外, 他將會(huì)把從信和照片抵家庭錄像帶及工作文件都記其實(shí)數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)上。他所有的電子郵件是自動(dòng)存在系統(tǒng)里的, 一如他在線所讀過或所買過的工具也自動(dòng)保留一樣。他還起頭以音頻文件記實(shí)電話談話和會(huì)議實(shí)況。顯然，這樣做輕易吐露隱私和公司平安。
Of course the system takes up a huge amount of memory. But Bell's group calculates that within five years, a 1000-gigabyte hard drive will cost less than $300 - and that is enough to store four hours of video every day for a year.
當(dāng)然，系統(tǒng)占有了極大的儲(chǔ)存空間。 可是Bell的小組計(jì)較出：在聞氖之內(nèi), 一個(gè) 1000 個(gè)十億字節(jié)的硬盤將會(huì)破耗不到300美元---而且一年內(nèi)那足夠天天儲(chǔ)存四個(gè)小時(shí)的圖像。
Each media file saved in MyLifeBits can be tagged with a written or spoken commentary and linked to other files. Spoken annotations are also converted into text, so the speech is searchable, too.
每個(gè)保留在"我的糊口片段"中的媒體文件城市被貼上標(biāo)簽或配上一段語(yǔ)音而且和其他文件毗連。語(yǔ)音注解也被轉(zhuǎn)換成文本，是以這種演講也是可查尋的。
To recall a period in his past, Bell just types in the dates he is interested in. MyLifeBits then calls up a timeline of phone and email conversations, things he has read and any images he recorded. The system can also be used to build narratives involving other people, events or places. Searching for the name of a friend would bring together a chronological set of files describing when you both did things together, for instance.
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