Lowlander wrote:I believe that many people would focus on the small things like pictures and objects of history.
Thankfully "not being like most people" the first thing that comes to mind at a terminal event is
peccata mundi (in a non-christian sense) leading me to think there was something substantially wrong with the previous life I led. Thus leading to a decent mental breakdown and Total Life Re-Evaluation Event. Adoption of loincloth and ashes. Trek the world. Feed the hungry. Castigate the righteous. Hang the rich. And finally, finally, win the heart of she who I lost so long ago.
Yes, I'm taking the piss, but the image of Total Site Destruction is just so poetic and romantic that it cries out to be played with. No doubt all your concerns are legitimate (in fact, in my "adult" guise I would agree with you), but traumatic loss can be rather liberating for humans, as opposed to conservative ("pictures and objects of history"). I think what I'm trying to point out here is that for the silly day-to-day existence of the mundanity we call "life" a standard (physical backup) is more than sufficient and quite useful given how humans have structured the world.
However, given how nature has structured the world (stochasticism), something more is longed-for but unattainable. The promise of what on-line backup provides is just not it.
I should think a drive image posted to Aunt Sally in Newark once a week would be sufficient, and indeed considered extreme for most people.
Or one could just gain enlightenment and grow less attached to the things of man.
That costs nothing and can never be lost.
The perfect backup.
[quote="Lowlander"]I believe that many people would focus on the small things like pictures and objects of history.[/quote]
Thankfully "not being like most people" the first thing that comes to mind at a terminal event is [i]peccata mundi[/i] (in a non-christian sense) leading me to think there was something substantially wrong with the previous life I led. Thus leading to a decent mental breakdown and Total Life Re-Evaluation Event. Adoption of loincloth and ashes. Trek the world. Feed the hungry. Castigate the righteous. Hang the rich. And finally, finally, win the heart of she who I lost so long ago.
Yes, I'm taking the piss, but the image of Total Site Destruction is just so poetic and romantic that it cries out to be played with. No doubt all your concerns are legitimate (in fact, in my "adult" guise I would agree with you), but traumatic loss can be rather liberating for humans, as opposed to conservative ("pictures and objects of history"). I think what I'm trying to point out here is that for the silly day-to-day existence of the mundanity we call "life" a standard (physical backup) is more than sufficient and quite useful given how humans have structured the world.
However, given how nature has structured the world (stochasticism), something more is longed-for but unattainable. The promise of what on-line backup provides is just not it.
I should think a drive image posted to Aunt Sally in Newark once a week would be sufficient, and indeed considered extreme for most people.
Or one could just gain enlightenment and grow less attached to the things of man.
That costs nothing and can never be lost.
The perfect backup.
:D