{"id":66,"date":"2004-09-09T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/09\/09\/article-mram-memory-and-history\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T13:42:17","slug":"article-mram-memory-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/09\/09\/article-mram-memory-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: MRAM memory and history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every move you make could be stored on a PLR<br \/>\nKevin Maney<br \/>\nUSA Today<br \/>\nPosted 9\/7\/2004 8:51 PM; Updated 9\/8\/2004 12:03 AM<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/columnist\/kevinmaney\/2004-09-07-plr_x.htm<br \/>\nSAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Over the years, a number of tech prognosticators<br \/>\nhave said that someday many of us will own a device that might be<br \/>\ncalled a personal life recorder, or PLR.<br \/>\n(goes on to describe new MRAM&#8211;Magnetic RAM&#8211;chip &#8211; more storage, very small)<br \/>\nGoing forward, MRAM could open similar possibilities, in time perhaps<br \/>\ngiving rise to personal life recorders. Of course, PLRs will create a<br \/>\nwhole new set of problems. Like, how would you search all that data to<br \/>\nfind the conversation that proves you asked your spouse if it was OK if<br \/>\nyour mother came to stay for a month?<br \/>\nCould a lawyer subpoena your PLR? What if Kobe Bryant had one that<br \/>\nnight in the hotel room?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m worried about what it might do to our minds. Human brains enhance<br \/>\nand put a spin on memories the second they are stored. I might find out<br \/>\nthat none of my goals in hockey look anywhere near as exciting as I<br \/>\nrecall. That could precipitate some kind of major personality disorder,<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every move you make could be stored on a PLR Kevin Maney USA Today Posted 9\/7\/2004 8:51 PM; Updated 9\/8\/2004 12:03 AM http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/columnist\/kevinmaney\/2004-09-07-plr_x.htm SAN JOSE, Calif. \u2014 Over the years, a number of tech prognosticators have said that someday many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2004\/09\/09\/article-mram-memory-and-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}