Your Life, Uploaded by Gordon Bell

Author:Gordon Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

This lady wasn’t just keeping track of when her grandson had called or maintaining an accurate record of the words he said. For her, hearing his little voice was precious.

This is a very different aspect of Total Recall from what we have discussed in the last three chapters. This kind of memory gets to the heart of your emotional life, to the fabric and climax of the best stories you can tell about yourself. Sure, we can have perfect recall with regard to our work, our health, our pursuit of knowledge; we will improve our minds, bodies, and ventures. But this also touches our hearts, our emotional lives, with all that impractical stuff that makes up the rest of our days and nights. It is an awesome prospect that even these kinds of memories can become e-memories, totally searchable, even ready for scientific analysis. What would Proust have made of it?

These kinds of memories so often exist between you and someone you are close to. Between you and your grandmother, son, friend. They are often family memories. As such, the bio-memories overlap. Each individual’s enhances the others’. In the world of Total Recall, your e-memories will supercharge this enhancement. Your personal relationships inside and around your family will be transformed.

If we can have a complete record of the things about people that especially provoke meaning for us, what will we do with this complete record when they are gone? We will maintain the e-memory of that person as a treasured heirloom. And, someday, we will ask it questions. The e-memory will answer. You will have virtual immortality.

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