Comments on: Audience Thoughts On Richard Banks’ Good Ideas Talk http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rb.log» Blog Archive » Good Ideas bake-off http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html/comment-page-1#comment-252485 rb.log» Blog Archive » Good Ideas bake-off Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:19:16 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=26083#comment-252485 [...] http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html [...] [...] http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html [...]

]]> By: Richard http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html/comment-page-1#comment-252475 Richard Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:07:18 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=26083#comment-252475 That's a fair comment, Paula. What we're noticing, though, is that the older items become the more they transition from being objects of sentiment, where you actually know or have heard personal accounts of the people they represent, to objects of archaeology, where the things that are interesting in, say, a photo or a piece of writing are those that tell you something about the time in which they were created. For example, if you think of your digital photos, blog posts or even Twitter Tweets in the “short term”, as heirlooms for just a couple of generations of your offspring, then the content in them that will matter will be personally about you. The emotive things. What you were saying. Who you were with. What you felt. etc. More subjective qualities, maybe. A couple of generations later, your ancestors may care more about what you were wearing, how you said something (the language you used), the context in which something was said (compared to the events that defined that time). The more objective qualities, perhaps. That still makes those items very valid as short term mediators of sentimentality, and then longer term instructors in history. I think it’s hard for us to imagine their value, but if my Grandfather is anything to go by, the older he got, the more he reflected on his and his families past. I think that’s pretty common and human. That’s a fair comment, Paula. What we’re noticing, though, is that the older items become the more they transition from being objects of sentiment, where you actually know or have heard personal accounts of the people they represent, to objects of archaeology, where the things that are interesting in, say, a photo or a piece of writing are those that tell you something about the time in which they were created.

For example, if you think of your digital photos, blog posts or even Twitter Tweets in the “short term”, as heirlooms for just a couple of generations of your offspring, then the content in them that will matter will be personally about you. The emotive things. What you were saying. Who you were with. What you felt. etc. More subjective qualities, maybe.

A couple of generations later, your ancestors may care more about what you were wearing, how you said something (the language you used), the context in which something was said (compared to the events that defined that time). The more objective qualities, perhaps.

That still makes those items very valid as short term mediators of sentimentality, and then longer term instructors in history. I think it’s hard for us to imagine their value, but if my Grandfather is anything to go by, the older he got, the more he reflected on his and his families past. I think that’s pretty common and human.

]]> By: Your Favorite Ideas From Good Ideas Salon London - PSFK.com http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html/comment-page-1#comment-252348 Your Favorite Ideas From Good Ideas Salon London - PSFK.com Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:58:39 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=26083#comment-252348 [...] Audience Thoughts From Richard Banks’ Good Ideas Talk [...] [...] Audience Thoughts From Richard Banks’ Good Ideas Talk [...]

]]> By: Paula http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-richard-banks-good-ideas-talk.html/comment-page-1#comment-251289 Paula Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:02:23 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=26083#comment-251289 Isn't this awfully arrogant and self-important? I can understand how digital memoirs might be important for three, maybe four generations. But after that, aren't we making a big assumption that our descendants will care? It seems like we're all going to end up as digital ghosts. Isn’t this awfully arrogant and self-important? I can understand how digital memoirs might be important for three, maybe four generations. But after that, aren’t we making a big assumption that our descendants will care? It seems like we’re all going to end up as digital ghosts.

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