tech-no.

With the technology that conforms today, there lies a frightening chance—a risk of fatality. See yourself now, contained within the computer: archived, named, given order, expressed. Then imagine a time in the future when your computer is lost, stolen, dead. This event is probable—and though you dream it up now, you may wake to it soon or less soon, but still at some point. Will you have lost yourself? Perhaps not wholly, but fragments of knowledge that spoke, explicated and told of yourself will go missing. I assume that within this panic you will not be able to remember all that was there. And the burden of not having yourself entirely will weigh heavy on you. This chance of having less of who you were and admitting that part of you is gone and irretrievable sounds tragic. I know I must begin saving myself, but I fathom that even when using much concerned attention certain detailed documents will slip from me. I will have lost myself thinking, and something will be forgotten even when I tried to make myself known.