How do we save our digital lives?
May 10, 2015
How do we save our digital lives?
THIS IS ME, A LOOOOOONG TIME AGO
This is my mother, from an even longer time ago
This is my diary, 15 years ago
This is my father, the evening he would meet my mother
THESE ARE THE PIECES OF MY LIFE’S EVIDENCE
THESE ARE MY PERSONAL ARTIFACTS
WITH SOCIAL MEDIA, WE ARE
CAPTURING MORE
PERSONAL ARTIFACTS THAN EVER
BEFORE
BUT BECAUSE OF THIS, WE ARE NO LONGER CAPTURING OUR PERSONAL ARTIFCATS IN A FORMAT THAN CAN EASILY BE PRESERVED
EVERYTHING IS DIGITAL
Our personal artifacts are on sites where the host or web service provider ultimately has control
NOW WE DON’T HAVE TO KEEP EVERYTHING…
But we do want to make sure some things are preserved for the next generation, for historians, for archivists
To understand humanity
How do we save our digital lives?
And why is it so important we begin to really think about
this?