--- author: email: mail@petermolnar.net image: https://petermolnar.net/favicon.jpg name: Peter Molnar url: https://petermolnar.net copies: - http://web.archive.org/web/20190624130015/https://petermolnar.net/re-digital-memories/ in-reply-to: http://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/07/digital-memories lang: en published: '2015-11-11T11:28:18+00:00' tags: - internet --- > Collectively, the Web-privileged world is recording an insane amount > of unstructured personal data; so many fleeting thoughts and feelings > and desires and needs. Where did this come from? Didn't we used to > manage fine without? A bit to read: "[We, the Web Kids by Piotr Czerski](http://pastebin.com/0xXV8k7k)" > If we're not going to do that, we should probably focus on living in > the moment a bit more. I feel like that is healthier, but it goes > against my impulse to (at least try to) record and permanently store > everything. We, as living beings, are ephemeral. Some of our data might worth to outlive us, but most of it probably doesn't. It is indeed important to live and enjoy those moments. *Some would say those are the moments dreamers refer to as happiness, so the struggle to archive them could easily invalidate that happiness factor.* If you manage to archive without effort ( see: The best interface is no interface by Golden Krishna[^1] ) that is probably best of both worlds, and might take the burden off. Thought in my belief, it's still futile: you can't re-live everything you forget, since after a while it'd take longer to revive the memories than the time you have left in this world. [^1]: