Memories Can’t Wait

We are collecting data at a faster rate than ever before…
I have 3 HDs full with thousands of pictures, recorded tens of hours of video,
and kept digital keepsakes which only I or my close ones understand and enjoy.

What will happen to all this collected media after 3 or 4 generations?
I bet that my great grandkids will be content with only 10 or so photos of me.
What about further down the genealogical tree? Who will care?

Nobody.

Why  take so much time, effort, and money to record material no one will see or want?
Cheap storage media makes keeping it all worthwhile, but who will have the time to review this material?

I have about three photos of my grandparents, and their rarity somehow makes them more special.
Memories become bigger than the lives that made them.

Maybe, this storage could be uploaded to our brains, every little detail of our ancestors at our beck and call.
History not told story by story but lived through our very own experience.
Walking human encyclopedias.

This is in no way finished…
I will update as it becomes clearer to me.