Spot on with our ability to preserve the past being the cause of this. Someone born in 1940 didn't grow up watching their favorite children's movies over and o

Spot on with our ability to preserve the past being the cause of this. Someone born in 1940 didn't grow up watching their favorite children's movies over and over and over on VHS, you know? You missed something then, it was often just gone. Maybe there'd be a picture or two of the event (or stills from the film) in a book somewhere in the library. (granted, yes, now they can go back and see that stuff, probably, but they couldn't in, say, the 60s or 70s, for the most part) It's been trending this way since the camera and phonograph were invented, but things really took off right around the 80s—walkman, home camcorders becoming more affordable and the media cheaper, VCR, cassette tape, and so on. It's only going to get worse. Kids born today will very likely be able to walk around entire recorded 3D environments from their youth. Grandma's house at Christmastime when you were 9 years old? Done. Maybe we'll even be able to reconstruct semi-interactive versions of the people who were there. Your junior year high school dance? Don't see pictures and video of it, live it again. We'll see what effects that has on culture when it comes, I guess.