Crash Early, Crash Often (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 3)

by Venkatesh G. Rao

Imagine such a living memory being given to the transplant recipient simply as a searchable collection. You could evolve the interface for the transplant recipient as follows. Let’s call this recipient YouTwo, and the donor YouOne. Version 1 would simply be a Google-like searchable app on a smart phone. If YouTwo sees a cat, he/she/it searches for “cat” and sees a reverse chronological stream of cat images and associations from YouOne’s life. YouTwo can edit anything from YouOne’s past that comes up. Version 2 would automate the linkage as a sort of soft memory surgery. Anything YouTwo experiences would trigger a search whose results could be reviewed in peripheral vision, again in read/write mode. This would be a sort of ghostly/poltergeist haunting of YouTwo by YouOne. Version 3 would sensorize the search results, piping