Harlan E. Anderson

In case you missed it, Gordon Bell has a new book out with Jim Gemmell called “Total Recall“.  Gordon was a colleague of mine in the early days at Digital and is a founder of the Computer History Museum.   Business Week  has a nice description of his pioneering work in collecting all his personal information in digital form.  He has been doing it since 1998.  This includes every conversation, photo, medical records and videos of his personal contacts, as well as the usual E-Mails, memos and books.  Gordon calls it “lifelogging”. He and his co-author discussed this and what it all means to the future at the Computer History Museum on September 23.  Who knows where this will lead, but we could be witnessing computer history while it is being made.