[ale] Archival Life [wuz: 26G to backup]

[Doug Hall]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have lost several years of e-mail due to my file server croaking. My
>> fault completely, yet it makes me wonder what I'm doing in such dusty
>> archival mode.
>
>
> There's a lot of good thinking about these matters in the book, _Total
> Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything_.  The primary
> author, Gordon Bell, has gone farther than most, earlier than most, in
> experimenting with the extremes of "archival mode."  Most of his life is
> captured digitally.
>
> His ideas were very interesting to me.  He points out, for example, that
> digital memories are unlike mental ones that consume mental energy in the
> present (some of the stuff in his digital memory is pretty much forgotten in
> his own mind) or even paper ones, which intrude physically on the present,
> and so they're essentially gone unless you willingly recall them.

I would imagine this poor guy's life is nothing but one long Déjà vu.
He could probably just watch The Big Bang Theory and be done with it.