Personal memory in the digital archive

This clip introduces Microsoft's 'MyLifeBits' project, including project leader Gordon Bell. MyLifeBits offers multimedia tools that allow users to record events from their lives and then retrieve them at will. In this way, personal memory is transformed into a fully searchable digital archive.





How persuasive is this notion? José van Dijck suggests that it overlooks:

1. the fundamental differences between human memory and digital memory 
2. the way that technology does not simply mirror 'natural' memory, but also shapes the ways in which we remember.