Nothing Is Permanent in the Digital World
数字世界里没有永恒
Jenni Russell 珍妮·拉塞尔
Last month my 84-year-old mother's phone, an elderly Samsung, was stolen. The most upsetting loss was four years of photographs that had never been uploaded anywhere else. They weren't just an archive, they were a pleasure; she often scrolled through them when she was by herself. Now they have vanished. None of her children or grandchildren had thought to ask whether she was saving them. The advent of automatic cloud services had passed my mother by.