#174 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday October 20)
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Good morning! I wrote a while back about our penchant for filming virtually every tiny event in our lives, sacrificing being “in the moment” for creating a chronicle that few people will ever see. It’s not as if we take just one photo. When many of us were kids, developing film cost money and, therefore, there was a “price” to pay for multiple photos. These days we take multiple photos of everything (for which there is essentially no incremental cost). But doesn’t this massive photo library become a digital version of the boxes of school papers, baseball cards, mementos and old furniture that fills our garages? We should think about the detritus we leave behind, the burden it will someday place on our survivors, and what that detritus tells others about us.
#174 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday October 20)
#174 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday…
#174 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Wednesday October 20)
Good morning! I wrote a while back about our penchant for filming virtually every tiny event in our lives, sacrificing being “in the moment” for creating a chronicle that few people will ever see. It’s not as if we take just one photo. When many of us were kids, developing film cost money and, therefore, there was a “price” to pay for multiple photos. These days we take multiple photos of everything (for which there is essentially no incremental cost). But doesn’t this massive photo library become a digital version of the boxes of school papers, baseball cards, mementos and old furniture that fills our garages? We should think about the detritus we leave behind, the burden it will someday place on our survivors, and what that detritus tells others about us.