CNET News.com story on securing a domain name and/or personal email address for babies: "So if a baby has an e-mail address, and people do write to him, he has a virtual time capsule waiting"
interesting in a twisted sort of way - would be akin to just putting all the cards in a box and hand it over a 13?
But there is definitely a "generation" perspective here, think of how much kids growing up today will glean from looking at their parents flickr and blogs, going through playlists and podcasts rather than stacks of lps. Assuming, that is, that the content will still be around and accessible in ten or twenty years time. Will html still be understood, will the servers over at Yahoo and Google (read: flickr and blogger) still be up?
How will the text and still-images pages of 1995 look in another twenty years? As dated as 19th century newspapers? Like the cavepaintings and stone carvings of old next to the all video all dimensional digital world?
So maybe you should take some extra time to archive for the next generation - both digitally (online and off, including some key software) and good old hard copy (go ahead and splurge on a book edition of your own blog!)
And then get moving into the future, making each day a little better than the last.
