人类具有每秒钟记忆2比特信息的能力,人的一生当中大约能记住几百兆的信息。但一张普通的DVD影碟的容量就有5GB,因此我们的大脑能够储存的信息量根本微不足道。更糟糕的是,你可能会轻松地想起40年前的电影中的对白,却忘记了妈妈的生日;或者记住了去年NBA总决赛的比分,却忘了上周刚完成的工作。1998年,微软公司的高级研究员戈登·贝尔开始用数字的方式记录他的整个生活,他把这个项目称为“我 Humans have the ability to memorize 2 bits of information per second, remembering hundreds of megabytes of information in one’s life. But an ordinary DVD disc has 5 GB of capacity, so the amount of information our brain can store is simply insignificant. To make matters worse, you may easily think of the dialogue in a movie 40 years ago, forgetting Mom’s birthday, remember the NBA Finals last year, and forget what was done just last week. In 1998, Gordon Bell, a senior researcher at Microsoft, began digitally recording his entire life. He called the project "I