I must admit I have often thought about this. Especially since I was unexpectedly taken seriously ill and realised how little customers care but how only those that really do do.

To be sure it is a thorny problem. How do you share what is private in a way that is also private but while being publicly accessible. To be honest though if I am to figure out a solution I will have to figure it out in such a way that is bullet proof for people who are not technically competent. That is harder to solve.

One thing that has been bothering me though is all the data I have generated the ideas I have had and things I have created. How to ensure that they last long after I do.

At the London Steem meet I recounted my fears of digital desolation as we move more and more of our lives to ephemeral media. It was easy enough for our great grandparents to take a photo, write in diary or sent letters which last hundred of years. But what are we doing to ourselves now? If you took a digital photo 20 years ago are you happy with that 640x480 resolution? Can you even read the images off whatever memory storage devices you used? Was it a memory stick? A compact flash card? Do you have anything in your possession that can read them? And the problem has only become worse. With 1000 upon 1000 of digital images we take now , how many of them can we save for our grandchildren or great grandchildren? How will we do that task of archiving data in a medium that is going to last 100's of years like photos, or books or records can ?

It is already a tragedy that we have lost so much music to things like fire but what happens when digital storage fails ?

To be honest it is a problem society start needing to tackle for if we are not careful vast amounts of our culture will be just lost to the annuls of time with nothing but the ghost of a digital footprint left.

We are on the verge of erasing our own history it could be said.