The Digital Age
By Tyler Olson | March 15, 2010
I watched a TED video this morning. Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of Wine Library TV, reminded me once again that everything we do today is digitally recorded. Our children and grand-children are going to have access to so much about our lives. When I think about what I know about my great grand-parents, I know their names and I know the few stories I have time to hear from my grandparents. But my children are going to have access to what I said on twitter even today, March 15th, 2010. They will be able to see that I missed the last 3 episodes of 24 because hulu broadcasts that.
Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, spoke at an EO event this past week at the James J Hill library on the topic of Social Media. He also stressed the importance and power of the web. As technology evolution continues to accelerate, more and more of what we do is going to be digitally recorded and archived. In the near future, life will be video-recorded and broadcasted everywhere we go (as it already can be). What does this mean in the privacy debates, speed of life issues, the ADD surge in young people? I don’t know. But technology is quickly and gracefully macro-evolving the way life works.
I am very interested to know your thoughts on whether these things concern you, excite you, and what you plan on doing with this.
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9:19 am on March 15th, 2010
I too yearn for more information about my ancestors. Too hear their voice tell a story about their journey. To have pictures and listen to their favorite music. I am excited for the future. In fact look for my friends new venture called Great Book Of Life to launch in Spring. A website that provides a place where the stories of people’s lives can be written and then saved for future generations to enjoy.
12:16 pm on March 16th, 2010
Tyler, I like this piece. So interesting about future generations having a thorough record of our lives. I guess that puts a lot of onus on us to put our best morality forward. Unfortunately for many — our proudest moments may become diminished by other moments that we will have wished that time forgot.
10:11 pm on March 25th, 2010
Tyler, good questions. I’m interested in the science of memory (see RadioLab’s great podcast), particularly what it means when we have multiple sources in our lives reminding and reinterpreting our stories for us. I seem to remember that you’re an only child as well – doesn’t it seem that only children have much smaller data banks of memories from their childhoods (compared to families with multiple children)? Would recorded life encourage “learning from history’s mistakes” and increase creativity, or does it reduce the incentives to memorize anything? Does it increase memory or, because there are fewer incentives to remember details, does it shrink our brain’s recall capabilities? I think you and me will both be following Neuroscience’s attempts to answer these questions in the coming years.