Build a service that stores and preserves digital files for future generations


geneology tree


Write the idea down

Get a manager to hook up meetings with potential investors.

Pitch the idea. Come up with a mock web site (screen shot slide show). Get numbers on how many people would be interested in the service. Come up with a revenu scheme. Ideas about an avdertising campaign. Projected growth. Ideas of addon services like building a slideshow from pictures and addind a sound track. Description of how the information would be stored. What prevents us from being copied. Standards of how the information will be passed down from generation to generation. What file format. What operating system, what playback software, what input device. What language to communicate in.

Develop a philosophy of who we are and what we would like future generations to think of us. Will any of us leave a message like sorry, we messed up thigs pretty bad but we tried to do the best we can? 

Include a social network angle. People can make avaliable the content to their family and friends. Option on who has access in the future. Allow permission on one branch of a family tree. Make all content public after 100 years.

What the investors are investing in is me. My ideas, my expertise to complete a project. The leadership ability I bring. Forward thinking. Positive.

Get people to help me on this project. There will be a lot of help offered because it is a positive project. Let people share.

Make a forum where people can post messages after viewing someones package. Like a guest book. Have a descussion feature per item. Allow people to arrange the content as they choose. They can save their presentation of the content and post it for others in the futuer to view. Leave a video response. Create a different slideshow. Like the presentations you make with your package.

Like facebook but with a time capsule property. Able to search the content from the past. Show me Joe's profile today. Show me his profile the day he made it. Show me the history of the content here. Show me who has been viewing this content.

Have a feature to import content from blogs. Have a video upload feature. Create a menu to list the videos. When avaliable create a plugin for people's TV's so they can view the content from their couch. 

How much do people pay to invest? How much does the manager know obout this part of the business?  A precentage of the company? Read some Internet funding books, browse the web to see what services are avaliable.

Decide how much money is needed and what will be done with it. What will the milestones be. What features will be avaliable in what release. A timeline of what happens when.

Try to find out how much other companies get paid.

The concept of a moderator and how they tend to a group of indeviduals. How they make sure a connection is kept with future generations?  Maybe they just help out people today. You can hire a moderator to build you site and keep it up to date. The moderators can create a name for themselves, like artists to get more clients.

Have a plan on how the data will be stored for 200 years. Have public investments where there is proof the company has funds to preserve the information for a long period of time even if the worst was to happen. Get a satilite to be a backup of the content. If the power was to go off tomorrow the satelite would orbit for hundreds of years. Could also keep a copy on the moon. Send a new copy once a year. On new years day.

When the project is up and running look for another project to start. Maybe be an addon to this project. Maybe the next one will have no relation.

Incorporate the idea of a watch that records everything all day long. Then the software creates markers and tags. Make an interface to retrieve the information. Make the storage properties public knowledge. With permission of the account holder the information can be exported to a publcly advertised format.

Have the ability to be bought out by a larger company and preserve the information. Leagaly binding if the company is sold. What kind of agreement with the customers?  Is there a monthly fee?  Is there a one time fee?  Is the the service free. Can it become a charitable organization? Can it become a work of art?

Each generation would be responsable for adding new formats and features. They would also be reponsible for maintaining access to the previous. If required they would need to translate. The written and spoken words. If people loose their sight the pictures should be converted to song. Telepathic database.

Have the ability to hide certain items to individuals or until a certain time.



Call it JessyTree


God can combine many different thoughts into a beautiful expression of what is and can be. The article above is a skillfully woven fabric from the threads of brillient ideas.


Get a person with hookups in the US. Make sure I can get paid if I work there. Or get funds to start an operation in Toronto.

Build to a state where we can get loans from the bank. Take it public to achive it's value.

Make it international friendly. Get local advertisers and sponsers. Pay the sponsers to maintain content for their area. The get the translation done. Create the ads. Set up promotion interviews (local TV). People get paid to write blog artices and get people to read them.


Write a book which describes the challenges to store information for the distaint future. How things may be differet. Senarios on how people may use the content in the future. Qestion what people think are normal and will not change. How an advanced race could transfer the data. And how a primitive race could access it. Story telling for the advanced race and eating mushrooms for the primitive.

Let people decide what they would like to leave behind when they go. Like the tomb of a pharo.

Add a feature where is downloads your blog or archives your email daily. It indexes and stores the information with little to no help required. Like a memory backup service. Interface to set permission, hide, or delete items.

It could be a site where you add content to it once a year.

Have RRS feeds of all you friends. So you see a summary of the content they create or change.

Have a geneology feature where you can trace family members. People upload pictures and write messages. Then tag the person. You cab build a profile for someone in the past. That persons profle would indicate who changed what and how they were related.

Examine how people today keep memories from generation to generation. What's included and what is lacking.

Can nonanimate objects have profiles? Like a bridge or a river. You can get the history of something if it is tagged and findable.

Look at the wikipedia system of publishing content. You build your content and others can contribute to what you store.

Pics
Videos
Calender
Blog history
Email history

Plugin for other content.
  Playlist of the songs I listened to on a date. Store artist and title in a batabase now. In the future link that information to the actual song. In the future there may be a profile of the person, a calendar or items. The user searches the callendar for all songs. Then they click a day and listen to songs heard on that day.

Use the idea of bubbles. Each person creates and furnishes their own bubble. Someone may wish to store a favorite video game. For now they enter the date and title. In the future when the technology is avaliable, associate an emulator and game image. Allopw somone in the future to play the game just like you played it.

View the content as if you are a day in the past. People upload captures of web sites they visit. Maybe a plugin to log all you browsing. Store it in a central location several people can refer to one copy of an item.

Educate people on how to keep their content private.

Log what shows you watch when. Link to the shows if avaliable.

Allow content producers to remove their content if requested. What can be removed and what cannot be removed?  Taggs can't be removed. Content can be removed.

Someone logs he watched a show. At some point the show is uploaded. Other people add information like the making of the show. Information can be combined. Look at wikipedia. In the end a user could explore deeply the events of a person and day.

If we could get information of people in the past what would we like to see. How would we like to get it. Why is there little evedence of a past people here today? Did they not learn how to pass information down for a long time? Is the information hidden from us by a more intellegent source? Is there a reason all traces have been erased?

What digital legacy can someone leave behind?  A few pictures, a video clip and a letter or two?  How can someone record ones life? How can the viewer know the person?  See the world through their eyes for a bit.

Charge outsiders to extract / link to people's content. Be big on import / export. Make it easy to add content.

See if it is possible to copy images from facebook. Copy movies from YouTube. Does YouTube own the copyright on content uploaded by their users? 

Users need to set up a suite of tools which record information and uploads it. If users are more comfortable they can store it locally. Also tools to export from one system and send to another. For example copy all voice mail messages and archive them.

For now focus on the long term storage of a few items the user choses to store. The making it easier to add content comes later.

When a user sets up a profile they map out who their family and friends are. The system makes a placeholder profile until the real person clames it. When they claim there profile they are already linked to people, places and times.

In the event of your passing the following people will be notified of your package.

Sell a gravestone with a screen embedded. Solar powered. Long lasted memory. Simple button to display content.

Does anyone care about people in the future knowing about them?  Who are the packages for?  Will people in the future care about this material from the past? 

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