How Do We Save Our Digital Lives? Introduction

How do we save our digital lives?

THIS IS ME, A LOOOOOONG TIME AGO

This is my mother, from an even longer time ago

This is my diary, 15 years ago

This is my father, the evening he would meet my mother

THESE ARE THE PIECES OF MY LIFE’S EVIDENCE

THESE ARE MY PERSONAL ARTIFACTS

WITH SOCIAL MEDIA, WE ARE

CAPTURING MORE

PERSONAL ARTIFACTS THAN EVER

BEFORE

BUT BECAUSE OF THIS, WE ARE NO LONGER CAPTURING OUR PERSONAL ARTIFCATS IN A FORMAT THAN CAN EASILY BE PRESERVED

EVERYTHING IS DIGITAL

Our personal artifacts are on sites where the host or web service provider ultimately has control

NOW WE DON’T HAVE TO KEEP EVERYTHING…

But we do want to make sure some things are preserved for the next generation, for historians, for archivists

To understand humanity

How do we save our digital lives?

And why is it so important we begin to really think about

this?