I don't delete any data, and in fact on my Drobo and RAID on our home server I have files going back to Jr. High. I often look at how my parents remember thing

I don't delete any data, and in fact on my Drobo and RAID on our home server I have files going back to Jr. High. I often look at how my parents remember things, like my dad remembering his now deceased parents and realize that memory for me is going to be fundamentally different. For one: they have a memory dictated by the physical effects of chronology. Their photographs and videos age. Mine age only when subject to progress of technology and arbitrary concepts that are based on representation (i.e., datestamps). My memories live outside of time now. Ten years ago is morphologically no different than yesterday. The only fundamental fissure with chronology is file formats, but even that isn't insurmountable. My wife and I first emailing, our first date, my child's birth, our wedding: all there in a Spotlight index and on redundant drives. The memories of my great grandpa, my wife's grandmother: all there. The thing is: does this stop? I've taken 2900 photos of my son so far (in two years). When do we live so fully outside of time that we lose our concept of it passing? We can live without letting go with so little consequence, just the addition of drives, that its silly not to try. In ten years, I'll have accumulated exponentially more data than in the ten years, or twenty years prior. I don't yet know if that's a good thing.