I found a whole new family via AncestryDNA, my birth-father's side of my family and 4 half-siblings. Very fascinating all this DNA stuff! And of course, the documents in the archives are so fun to discover. It can be almost addicting, because hours of digging results in a little treasure, we just keep digging!
Ah, where we came from and what are we made up of.
The older I get, the more important DNA appears to be over free well in decisions made.
Are we just a infinitesimal small chemical reaction to experienced events, predetermined by our makeup at the time of the Big Bang? It appears so.
While suddenly ancestor study has become greatly enhanced by the internet, we are still limited to gathering names and at best recording major events like marriage, birth, and death with a steamship passage tossed in.
During the Enron trial it was revealed emails have half lives of at least a thousand years and when you erase an email it is just erased on your computer but Big Brother Google has saved it for all eternity. (Back then I ran around the office proclaiming put nothing in an email that you would not cc to the FBI, something that turned out fortunate when I was later sued for 6 million dollars, a lawsuit dismissed with prejudice.)
The future will be vastly different.
In 3 more generations Google and other internet providers will be mature companies of little growth potential.
Then an accountant will come up with a big money cash cow to enhance profit and stock price, selling individual data stored on their vast files of long dead users to their descendants.
For only a million dollars, (equivalent to $100 today dollars) you will be able to follow in almost real time the life history of grand parents and great grand parents by viewing their emails and internet search histories.
Hopefully by then, everyone will have been exposed already so "reality" of what people really are like that none will be disturbed that a grand parent voted for by then disgraced Biden or Trump or sent emails to a hidden love.
So, to my great grandchildren, this reply is to let you know, great grand pa has nothing to hide as he never emailed the real me.
I found a whole new family via AncestryDNA, my birth-father's side of my family and 4 half-siblings. Very fascinating all this DNA stuff! And of course, the documents in the archives are so fun to discover. It can be almost addicting, because hours of digging results in a little treasure, we just keep digging!
Ah, where we came from and what are we made up of.
The older I get, the more important DNA appears to be over free well in decisions made.
Are we just a infinitesimal small chemical reaction to experienced events, predetermined by our makeup at the time of the Big Bang? It appears so.
While suddenly ancestor study has become greatly enhanced by the internet, we are still limited to gathering names and at best recording major events like marriage, birth, and death with a steamship passage tossed in.
During the Enron trial it was revealed emails have half lives of at least a thousand years and when you erase an email it is just erased on your computer but Big Brother Google has saved it for all eternity. (Back then I ran around the office proclaiming put nothing in an email that you would not cc to the FBI, something that turned out fortunate when I was later sued for 6 million dollars, a lawsuit dismissed with prejudice.)
The future will be vastly different.
In 3 more generations Google and other internet providers will be mature companies of little growth potential.
Then an accountant will come up with a big money cash cow to enhance profit and stock price, selling individual data stored on their vast files of long dead users to their descendants.
For only a million dollars, (equivalent to $100 today dollars) you will be able to follow in almost real time the life history of grand parents and great grand parents by viewing their emails and internet search histories.
Hopefully by then, everyone will have been exposed already so "reality" of what people really are like that none will be disturbed that a grand parent voted for by then disgraced Biden or Trump or sent emails to a hidden love.
So, to my great grandchildren, this reply is to let you know, great grand pa has nothing to hide as he never emailed the real me.