Soon after that he had read an article called "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, imagining a future in which everyone's own library of memories, books and memoranda was instantly retrievable on a desktop screen, rather than in the little notebooks he carried in his top shirt pocket.
(1) Keep the inventory of everything you have to do current, complete, effectively organized, regularly reviewed, and instantly retrievable at a moment's notice, while maintaining regular thinking about the projects and bigger things that you really want to accomplish.
Hague's political star was born overnight at the 1977 Blackpool Tory conference with THAT speech - an instantly retrievable icon in the national archive.
Evidently, every movie he'd ever watched — and he'd probably seen more than any other living director, more than most movie critics — was stored there, along with five-plus decades of personal history, sensory memory, family mythology, music heard, books read, all of it seemingly instantly retrievable.
Or will the Great British nation always see him as that geeky man-child, prematurely old, 16 going on 45, dressed in an appalling adolescent tweed blazer giving that "famous speech" at the 1977 Tory party conference, an instantly retrievable icon in the national archive somewhere between the three-day week, power cuts and Mrs T in a polka-dot dress on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
Make sure that electronic backup to support proxy certification is easily retrievable for audit purposes.
When a Twitter account is deleted, it will remain retrievable for 30 days (in case it was accidentally deactivated).
Make sure that the paper backup that supports certification by proxy is easily retrievable for audit purposes.
Financial records must be easily retrievable for examination by authorized departmental and central administrators, auditors and other authorized individuals.
Under current plans, the repository would be kept open and the rods retrievable for 50 to 300 years, allowing for extensive monitoring before the repository is permanently sealed.
The Department of Energy's recommendation that the Yucca Mountain storage containers be retrievable for 300 years renders moot the requirement to prove their safe storage for 10,000 years.
