I have a ton of memories. Five years from now, I hope my iPod still works. Ten years from now, I hope this flash drive will still have some flash to it. I heard Frank going on and on not too long ago about what he’s going to do with all the Zip disks he accumulated a decade and a half ago. He doesn’t even remember what’s on them… his zip disk drive grew wings and flew off to silicon heaven a LONG time ago. The files that might be on them are probably meaningless now, but even so… those memories are locked…unreadable, unreachable… essentially, they do NOT exist.

What I’m saying now… technically, it does not exist. If I do not have a backup, a hard copy print out does it exist? I probably won’t remember writing this. Frank, who draws still draws everything on PAPER (can you believe it?) will have the drawing above, provided he doesn’t auction it off. Even so, it will exist. Somewhere.

Digitizing history is scary. Hopefully, someone somewhere will be backing your history up. Probably wise not to bet on that though.