http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/02/03/life-caching/ "...a new favorite blog for professional excellence in public speaking, speech-writing, and executive communications." - The Register, May 24, 2008 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/02/03/life-caching/comment-page-1/#comment-204358 Don Sakers Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:27:18 +0000 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=1908#comment-204358 The point isn't to review the entirety of your cached experience -- it's to have the entirety available so that you can review whichever selected parts you want/need. Gordon Bell tells the story of a fellow researcher who was able to go back into his cache of pictures and find an image of his future wife at their <i>very first meeting</i>. At the time, he had no idea this woman would become his wife -- but if he hadn't routinely recorded pictures of <i>everyone</i> he met, he would never have been able to retrieve that <i>one</i> picture of inestimable value. The point isn’t to review the entirety of your cached experience — it’s to have the entirety available so that you can review whichever selected parts you want/need. Gordon Bell tells the story of a fellow researcher who was able to go back into his cache of pictures and find an image of his future wife at their very first meeting. At the time, he had no idea this woman would become his wife — but if he hadn’t routinely recorded pictures of everyone he met, he would never have been able to retrieve that one picture of inestimable value.

]]> http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2010/02/03/life-caching/comment-page-1/#comment-197810 Richard I. Garber Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:25:32 +0000 http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/?p=1908#comment-197810 Back in 1992 Donald Norman discussed the implications of such a device, which he called a <a href="http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/chapter_6_the_teddy.html" rel="nofollow"> Teddy</a> Back in 1992 Donald Norman discussed the implications of such a device, which he called a Teddy

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