@documentally there are interesting times ahead. The great thing is that the discussion for legacy is happening now. Sadly it is to late for some digital content, or maybe not. The future internet will be shaped by the citizens of the internet, as will its past.
With ipv6 and the internet of things we won't need hosting in the cloud. The cloud will be stretched across all devices. All you will need will be a data storage device and power and it will mesh with the ubiquitous network of things around it.
@katesparkle That is the thing isn't it. I guess the safest place to keep your legacy is on an external drive away from the internet. My website will close when I am dead, my ISP may not be around forever either so I guess legacy may be fragmented into little cubes in peoples lofts :)
I am not sure how much to worry about this issue. Firstly I have twice as many photo's of my kids already than my parents have of me for my whole life. We have a box of my nan's photos which my mum is filtering down to the people she knew - but I can't imagine I will want more than a handful of pics of my great great relatives. As media becomes more 'disposal' will our future generations have the inclination or time to review our masses of content?
Like @documentally I don't trust any organisation to care or maintain my content for the long term ... which I why I have stuff in the cloud ... but I also have all the important photos (birthday's, holidays etc) safely stored on a couple of WD drives too ... then the grandkids can have fun working out how to get them off again in the furture, like we are having finding a cheap way to convert all my parents 35mm photos on slides :)
@documentally Google Wave and Buzz are one of the main reasons I don't trust the corporate idea. I didn't know about archive.org great tip. I know my stuff isn't archive worthy to the world but my godsons etc will want to look back and see the mad uncle they remember :) Thank you dude for the tips
I trust the community over the corporates any day. I propose the open sourve community demand sites become 'legacy enabled' and we utilise plugins that allow the community to drop money on a site to keep the content live. You could leave money in your will to fund a space or demand it is migrated to archive.org or suchlike. Lots of possibilities. I wouldn't believe a corporate entity just because they say they will look after it for you. As soon as it costs them they will pull the plug.
@documentally there are interesting times ahead. The great thing is that the discussion for legacy is happening now. Sadly it is to late for some digital content, or maybe not. The future internet will be shaped by the citizens of the internet, as will its past.
Ernmander 11 months ago
With ipv6 and the internet of things we won't need hosting in the cloud. The cloud will be stretched across all devices. All you will need will be a data storage device and power and it will mesh with the ubiquitous network of things around it.
Documentally 11 months ago
@katesparkle That is the thing isn't it. I guess the safest place to keep your legacy is on an external drive away from the internet. My website will close when I am dead, my ISP may not be around forever either so I guess legacy may be fragmented into little cubes in peoples lofts :)
Ernmander 11 months ago
I am not sure how much to worry about this issue. Firstly I have twice as many photo's of my kids already than my parents have of me for my whole life. We have a box of my nan's photos which my mum is filtering down to the people she knew - but I can't imagine I will want more than a handful of pics of my great great relatives. As media becomes more 'disposal' will our future generations have the inclination or time to review our masses of content?
Like @documentally I don't trust any organisation to care or maintain my content for the long term ... which I why I have stuff in the cloud ... but I also have all the important photos (birthday's, holidays etc) safely stored on a couple of WD drives too ... then the grandkids can have fun working out how to get them off again in the furture, like we are having finding a cheap way to convert all my parents 35mm photos on slides :)
katesparkle 11 months ago
@documentally Google Wave and Buzz are one of the main reasons I don't trust the corporate idea. I didn't know about archive.org great tip. I know my stuff isn't archive worthy to the world but my godsons etc will want to look back and see the mad uncle they remember :) Thank you dude for the tips
Ernmander 11 months ago
I trust the community over the corporates any day. I propose the open sourve community demand sites become 'legacy enabled' and we utilise plugins that allow the community to drop money on a site to keep the content live. You could leave money in your will to fund a space or demand it is migrated to archive.org or suchlike. Lots of possibilities. I wouldn't believe a corporate entity just because they say they will look after it for you. As soon as it costs them they will pull the plug.
Documentally 11 months ago