Got to imagining again.
Wonder what it would have
been like had I been fitted
with a personal tracking
device at birth?
In their entirety, many of
our lives could be considered
complex and dizzying affairs.
All the places traveled, all the
people engaged, the millions
upon millions of educational
footprints laid. And for god’s
sake, consider all the jobs un-
dertaken, all those wonders
ingested and painful mistakes
made.
For future generations, each
and every one of us would be
an anthropological wonder.
Consider our spears and swords,
all our elemental pots and pans
uncovered, given the revelations
of places lived and visited in a
comprehensive life’s histories
revealed.
With the advent of implanted
personal lifetime tracking
devices, lord knows, the old
traditional ways of personal
record keeping (writing, pho-
tography and audio tracks)
will have become obsolete
ways of accounting.
Give the command, date
and time, and your past life
will replay in real time.
One never knows what the
future holds. For now, and
given the current methods
and technologies, what you
see here in writing from me
will have to do. Suffice it
to say, in my lifetime, I
have traveled to and lived
in many places. And to the
glory and dismay of it all,
I have become acquainted
with a wide variety of man-
kind cultures and individual
personalities. And for what
it’s worth, my takeaway
formed me into the person
I have come to be today.
One would have to be ex-
tremely patient digging
through mounds and
mounds of material to
get to the bottom of it all.
Looking back on it, an
implanted personal tracking
device would have been my
first choice. Give a verbal or
mental command, “Record”
and voila! There you have it.
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Chris Hanch 6-18-2023
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