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Brand, Stewart. 1995. “The Physicist.” Wired (September).
Bell’s law:
Bell, G. 2008. “Bell’s Law for the Birth and Death of Computer Classes.” Communications of the ACM 51 (1) (January): 86-94.
Sensors:
Warneke, Brett, Matt Last, Brian Liebowitz, and Kristofer S. J. Pister. 2001. “Smart Dust: Communicating with a Cubic-Millimeter.” Computer 34: 44-51.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/
http://ceng.usc.edu/~anrg/SensorNetBib.html
Zhao, Feng, and Leonidas Guibas. 2004. Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. http://tosn.acm.org
Sensors will be everywhere, and so will computational power. The ubiquitous and pervasive computing research communities are driving this forward. There are journals and magazines, including IEEE Pervasive Computing, Springer’s Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, and Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal.
Weiser, Mark. 1991. “The computer for the 21st century.” Scientific American 265, no. 3 (September): 94-104.
Ubiquitous computing conference Web site. http://ubicomp.org
Pervasive conference Web site. http://www.pervasive-conference.org
Pattie Maes’s lab at MIT, which previously did the Remembrance Agent work, has recently unveiled a system called “sixth sense” that includes a wearable projector and camera. Any surface becomes a possible computer display, and you control the system using hand gestures (your hands are tracked by the camera). A hand gesture takes a snapshot. A virtual keyboard can be displayed to type on. Bar codes can be scanned while shopping and extra information about products projected on them. When you read the newspaper, extra video footage for a story can be played. When you read a book, annotations and extra information can be projected into the margins. Sixth Sense is a great illustration of the technological climate that Total Recall will live in: constant recording possible with a wearable camera, and your e-memory ready to consult and enjoy at any moment on any surface.
Sixth Sense demo video. http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
Sixth Sense Web page. http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixth-sense.html
Mistry, P., P. Maes, and L. Chang. “WUW—Wear Ur World—A Wearable Gestural Interface.” To appear in the CHI ’09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009.
Storage trends: See Chapter 1.
Unified communications: “Forrester Research said recently that the unified communications (UC) market in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific will reach $14.5bn (£10.5bn) in 2015.”
Bell, Gordon, and Jim Gemmell. 2002. “A Call for the Home Media Network. Communications of the ACM 45, no. 7 ( July): 71-75. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Montalbano, Elizabeth. 2008. “IBM Pledges $1 Billion to Unified Communications.” PC World (March 11).
O’Reilly, Paul. 2009. “Managing Unified Communications Performance.” CRN (March 9).
Semantic Web:
Berners-Lee, T., and J. Hendler. 2001. “Scientific Publishing on the Semantic Web.” Nature (26 April).
W3C Semantic Web Frequently Asked Questions. http://www.w3.org/RDF/FAQ
British Library Digital Lives Project and conference:
Digital Lives Research Project Web page. http://www.bl.uk/digital-lives
First Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century. British Library, St. Pancras, London, February 9-11, 2009.
Randy Hahn helped us craft the story about him. The details are fictitious, but the scenario is completely realistic.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We have many to thank for helping make this book a reality. Roger Lueder was our key collaborator throughout the MyLifeBits project. It was the vision of our agent, James Levine, that spurred us on toward a much broader audience. Our editor, Stephen Morrow, guided us out of the mire of the scientific writing style. We are very grateful