MyLifeBits: A Personal Database for Everything

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MyLifeBits A Personal Database for Everything

• An article by Jim Gemmell
• As presented by
• Matt Marcus

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MyLifeBits

• What is it?
• How did this idea form?
• What can it store?

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History of MyLifeBits

• When it was first created it was a conglomerate
  of only files and folders.
• 30,000 items placed in 1,500 file folders
• They could only be retrieved by name

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Features of MyLifeBits

• Linking pictures to locations
• Timeline feature
• Monitors all computer activity
• Allows for easy searching
• When searching for a document in the database,
  MyLifeBits will search for synonyms of words
  entered.

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Space Requirements

• MyLifeBits is being formed upon the creation of
  the terabyte disk drives.
• By their calculations
• It is possible to exceed 1GB/day (with inclusion
  of video)
• .5GB without video
• A terabyte will be able to hold more than
  1GB/month for an 80-year life span

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Is a system like this practical!?!

• The creators opinion
• Your opinion?

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Final Thoughts

• Security
• If your computer is stolen
• Reliability
• If your computer crashes
• If the database crashes
• Time?!?
• Who would take the time to document their entire
  life?