Long ago I began writing (with a pen) into 'journals'/commonplace-books... into pre-bound books of empty pages. With never a worry about security or lost data (short of floods/fires/). With a potential lifetime of centuries.
They could be OCRed I guess. But why? Except for 'notable' people, I've never run into a library where such things are accessible. How much of my family would share my old interests? Being 'immortalized on the web' seems ... a bit vain.
I've often wished for a way to learn far more human details about great-grandparents (and earlier). Not just the "born, married, died" record. If they'd wanted it, for the self-selected few.
So I imagine solarized tombstones. They could electronically play-back (and/or downloading) files (audio/video/text) I thought worth sharing. Frozen in crystals. For centuries. Like that 'library' in the 2002 remake of 'Time Machine'.
They could be OCRed I guess. But why? Except for 'notable' people, I've never run into a library where such things are accessible. How much of my family would share my old interests? Being 'immortalized on the web' seems ... a bit vain.
I've often wished for a way to learn far more human details about great-grandparents (and earlier). Not just the "born, married, died" record. If they'd wanted it, for the self-selected few.
So I imagine solarized tombstones. They could electronically play-back (and/or downloading) files (audio/video/text) I thought worth sharing. Frozen in crystals. For centuries. Like that 'library' in the 2002 remake of 'Time Machine'.