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When You're Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters [Memoryforever]






You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that s...
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The Life and Death of the Rolodex [Memory Forever]






Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But people had social networks and phones, and they had to memorize and organize thousands of...
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Night of the Gun: Remembering Only What We Can Stand To Remember [Memoryforever]






Before David Carr was my favorite NY Times columnist, he was an asshole. More »






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The Five Stages of Data Loss Grief [Tgif]






So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone foreve...
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My Childhood Memories Live In Lego's Underground Secure Vault [Lego]






Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature-...
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A War Photographer's Storage Casualties [Blockquote]






The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate t...
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Nostalgia vs. Digital Reality: The Perils of Permanent Perfect Memory [Memory Forever]






It's easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you haven't seen it in years. But now you can, in better quality, even. Does it hold up? Mo...
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb [Brains]






Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his b...
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"Last summer, I forgot my friend Norman’s birthday." [Memoryforever]


Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: More »






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Hey, Put Down Your Goddamn Camera [Rant]






There's something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the fuzzy screen of a cellphone, trying to capture it forever, like an asshole. More ...
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Raiding Eternity [Memoryforever]






"Lots of times the families will go down to Kinko's," the funeral director tells me. "They can do a memorial folder thing down there." Do you help them get photos off Flickr, off Facebook? "We don't reall...
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This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft's Secret Stealth Data Centers [Memory Forever]






"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers ...
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Giz Explains: How Data Dies (and How It Can Be Saved) [Giz Explains]






Bits don't have expiration dates. But memories will only live forever if the media and file formats holding them remain intact and coherent. Time can be as deadly to data storage as it is to carbon-based ...
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How Google Crunches All That Data [Memory Forever]






If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything. Here are some o...
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Lifechanger: My Big Fat Music Collection [Lifechanger]






According to iTunes, I have 22,880 items in my music collection. That adds up to 70.9 days worth of music, taking up 145.26 GB of hard drive space. And thank God for it. More »





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Could a Traumatized Baby Become Batman? [Memoryforever]






A 7-month-old baby witnessed her parents' murder in Brazil Mexico. Can a baby remember a horrific event like a 10-year-old who might recall the horrific sight and sound, in graphic detail? Yes and no, Sla...
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Walking in Salman Rushdie's Digital Footsteps [Memoryforever]






The Salman Rushdie archive on display at Emory, with its handwritten journals and 18GB scattered across four Apple computers, is unlike any other—you can log in to a computer, search his folders, sc...
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Brain Scans Can Access Your Memories [Memoryforever]






This week, we're looking at the ever-increasing digitization of memory, and indeed, today's technologies can even access memories stored on the most closely-guarded of hard drives: our brains. In a recent...
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Memory [Forever] [Memory Forever]






You have more of your memories stored online than all of your ancestors ever left behind. The future of memory is already here. More »






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