The guinea pig

• Gordon Bell is digitizing his life

• Has now scanned virtually all:

• • Books written (and read when possible)
  • Personal documents (correspondence including memos and email, bills, legal documents, papers written, …)
  • Photos
  • Posters, paintings, photo of things (artifacts, …medals, plaques)
  • Home movies and videos
  • CD collection
  • And, of course, all PC files

• Now recording: phone, radio, TV (movies), web pages… conversations and meetings to come

• Paperless throughout 2002. 12” scanned, 12’ discarded.

• Only 44 GB, incl. 10 wma, 14 SQL!!! Video: o(100) + 500 mov