When I turn 80, will there still be a Facebook? And if there is, will I have a gazillion posts? What will it be like to go back a few decades on Facebook and see what I was doing?
"Memories. Light the corners of my mind .... Scattered pictures, of the smiles we left behind. Smiles we gave to one another ... Whenever we remember ..."
Imagine how many memories you will have stored away on some zebibyte server in space - you could pull down all those beer bashes, heartbreaks, all those memories that you have stored virtually so that you don't have to in your aged brain.
Imagine how you could show your grandkids your life and really show them that you were just like "them" at their age. Yes, that "show me your t*ts" photo from Mardi Gras will go over big with the young ones. Plus you can relive your brightest moments without having to over embellish because all the facts are right there in front of you, in video, audio, text and photo (and maybe even in an olfactory form too!).
Where did I leave that hat?
What will happen to our memories? I hope to take my Facebook to my grave, on a little touch screen, you could scroll through the best moments (of course I would edit out all the bits that would change your high opinion of me out) on my virtual tombstone.
The future is now and you want to make sure it's how you want the past to look - historical revisionism is at your fingertips.
"Hey go back to where Grandma is in that chicken outfit outside KFC...."
Image: Ophelia Chong / Fresh as a Daisy
Imagine how many memories you will have stored away on some zebibyte server in space - you could pull down all those beer bashes, heartbreaks, all those memories that you have stored virtually so that you don't have to in your aged brain.
Imagine how you could show your grandkids your life and really show them that you were just like "them" at their age. Yes, that "show me your t*ts" photo from Mardi Gras will go over big with the young ones. Plus you can relive your brightest moments without having to over embellish because all the facts are right there in front of you, in video, audio, text and photo (and maybe even in an olfactory form too!).
Where did I leave that hat?
What will happen to our memories? I hope to take my Facebook to my grave, on a little touch screen, you could scroll through the best moments (of course I would edit out all the bits that would change your high opinion of me out) on my virtual tombstone.
The future is now and you want to make sure it's how you want the past to look - historical revisionism is at your fingertips.
"Hey go back to where Grandma is in that chicken outfit outside KFC...."
Image: Ophelia Chong / Fresh as a Daisy
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I feel like this could open up the possibility of an edited past.. and only present an idealize version of ourselves.
Yoli
We can make sure we are perfect in every way after we pass, by editing now out all the stuff we don't want people to see, but we should also consider how we live our lives now. Is it in service to others or to ourselves? The former is the choice I hope we all make.
Ophelia