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Progress toward Cyberimmortality
Wactlar created a system called Experience on Demand, for 
the  Defense  Advanced  Research  Projects  Agency,  unobtru-
sively capturing peoples experiences in a form that facilitates 
sharing  them.  [13]  At  Microsoft,  Gordon  Bells  team  has 
been developing ways to collect and organize the documents 
and experiences of a lifetime in a project called MyLifeBits. 
[14;15] 
Many  researchers  are  developing  computer  methods  to 
record how people perceive their environments. [16] Others 
are developing the technology not only to record real environ-
ments but to make virtual copies of them, notably the effort at 
Columbia University to duplicate electronically the Cathedral 
of Amiens, the Virtual Vaudeville project at the University 
of  Georgia  to  recreate  century-old  performances  like  those 
of acrobat Sandow the Magnificent, and the Monuments and 
Dust project at the University of Virginia to recreate Victorian 
London, beginning with the famous Crystal Palace.
Recordings of behavior include facial expressions, [17] per-
sonal conversations [18] and the subtle delays when a person 
responds  to  challenging  stimuli.  [19;20]  Lisa  and  Daniel 
Barrett [21] have used pocket computers to conduct a random 
sample of the things a person does or experiences, and we can 
well imagine that within a few years many people will have 
their wearable computers constantly switched on and sending 
their words, deeds, and feelings over wireless Internet to be 
recorded on a home digital library.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Once data about an individual personality have been ported 
into an information system, some method is needed to revive 
it. One common idea is that some form of artificial intelli-
gence (AI) will reanimate the persons mind, so it is worth