Nostalgia

"Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time."

-The former Silk Spectre, Watchmen



I already started to feel this way in high school, when I'd think of how much more relaxed elementary was. Then in college, when I would miss how intense high school was. Then later, I'd often relive in my thoughts the curious, lonely freedom of college, in which my class schedule was uniquely my own, and there would be all these nights walking to and from completely by myself....

In my 30s now, and they slide from one to the other, those brighter memories that stick, and the music and the moments. A handful of times trying to fly a kite. Long trips to the mountains. A random encounter in a tourist bus in Greece.

The technology I most desire in Forever Watch is the part of the implant that gives perfect memories.

It won't be quite the same, but I do wonder about when Google Glass type products will become cheap and commoditized and cloud storage will become so cheap that that one could keep the glasses on continuously uploading live feed to storage. That extended memory would be an interesting step on the path of transhumanism....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noS1v...