Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Foreword
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1 - THE VISION
CHAPTER 2 - MYLIFEBITS
CHAPTER 3 - THE MEETING OF E-MEMORY AND BIO-MEMORY
PART TWO
CHAPTER 4 - WORK
CHAPTER 5 - HEALTH
CHAPTER 6 - LEARNING
CHAPTER 7 - EVERYDAY LIFE—AND AFTERLIFE
PART THREE
CHAPTER 8 - LIVING THROUGH THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 9 - GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER 10 - THE FUTURE
ANNOTATED REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Acknowledgements
INDEX
DUTTON
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Bell, C. Gordon.
Total recall : how the E-memory revolution will change everything / Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell ;
foreword by Bill Gates.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-101-13638-6
1. Information society. 2. Memory. 3. Neural networks. 4. Information resources management—
Forecasting. 5. Telematics—Forecasting. 6. Computers and civilization—Forecasting. I. Gemmell,
Jim, 1965- II. Title. III. Title: How the E-memory revolution will change everything.
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FOREWORD
BY BILL GATES
Instant, easy access to information has always been one of the most important and exciting promises of the Digital Age. I first spoke about “information at your fingertips” in a speech in 1990. Back then, I described information