Objects hold memories. As AR technology advances, you could upload the feelings attached to a physical thing into digital space, letting others experience those memories if you allow it. The speaker argues we should preserve our nostalgia by telling our stories.
Deep nostalgia. Objects store memories. Think about the last time you looked at something in your house, maybe something in your bag, something very personal, right? My guess is that you've kept it around because it reminds you of something, something in your life, something in your past, somebody you care about, a specific moment that's very special to you. And, uh, that's stored in that object, but the only person who can access that memory is you, right? So just the fact of keeping that object gives you a sense of deep nostalgia. And nostalgia, the definition is sort of like a melancholy as well as like a almost It's like this desire for days past— P-A-S-T and P-A-S-S-E-D. And so I think as we move into our AR future, what we will find is that objects that store memories can once and for all finally be shared with other people, right? Because you can upload your memory into an object in cyberspace. And when someone else comes close to that object, they too can experience that memory or that image or that emotion and feeling that you experience, but only if you give them access to it. And that's the key, the entitlement piece. All right. Objects store memories. Keep that deep nostalgia going and don't forget to, uh, tell your story.
