On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have lost several years of e-mail due to my file server croaking. My<br>
fault completely, yet it makes me wonder what I'm doing in such dusty<br>
archival mode.<br></blockquote></div><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br clear="all">
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