My paper trail
Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 90/4. Previous generations, in fact, almost all of humanity from its beginnings hundreds of thousands of years ago, did not only face death, as we all do, but also the extinction of their memory. With the invention of writing, things improved for a small minority. Today, however, with the digitalisation of all personal data, books, invoices, messages, biographical records and images included and, importantly, their storage across the world in electronic memory banks, parts of what constitutes our memory and what used to be our "paper trail" will now in all likelihood, as long as there is humanity, survive. And since AI will be around with its ability to search through billions of billions of data, we can be sure that remnants of the memory of us will be "harvested", processed and re-appropriated by the living. We will continue to be "around" somehow, just like ghosts, just like the dead in Hades visited and interrogated by Odysseus. It is a strange feeling.
My paper trail
Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 90/4. Previous generations, in fact, almost all of humanity from its beginnings hundreds of thousands of years ago, did not only face death, as we all do, but also the extinction of their memory. With the invention of writing, things improved for a small minority. Today, however, with the digitalisation of all personal data, books, invoices, messages, biographical records and images included and, importantly, their storage across the world in electronic memory banks, parts of what constitutes our memory and what used to be our "paper trail" will now in all likelihood, as long as there is humanity, survive. And since AI will be around with its ability to search through billions of billions of data, we can be sure that remnants of the memory of us will be "harvested", processed and re-appropriated by the living. We will continue to be "around" somehow, just like ghosts, just like the dead in Hades visited and interrogated by Odysseus. It is a strange feeling.