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When Digital Life Leaves No Tangible Legacy

Every book I buy for my kids is digital and every photo I take is stored in the cloud and I realize they will inherit no physical artifacts of their childhood.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The shift to immaterial storage systems may deprive future generations of the embodied connection that physical objects provide to personal history.

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