PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz
I’VE GOT A GREAT MEMORY: IT’S JUST REALLY SHORT
Now what was I going downstairs for?? I’d better go back up to the kitchen to find out.
Why am I in the kitchen? I was supposed to be going downstairs for…. something….
Senior citizens’ memories are not necessarily faulty, often just overfull – recollection upon recollection – experience after experience.
Science fiction offers us a future when we might upload our consciousness to a computer. Might be a good idea. Occasionally run a de-frag – do a sort and delete. I don’t need to remember that Bobby peed himself in First Grade. Where is that cake mix we bought the other day?
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Excellent out of the box 😉 take, Archon!
Now where did I put that thingamabob…
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Hah! I saw what you did there. 😀
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Dear Archon,
Now why did I turn on my computer? Nah, that never happens to me. Whatever it is I’m looking for will turn up when I’m looking for something else. Love the Friday Fictioneers meme. Stealing it now. Oh, I almost forgot to say I liked your take on the prompt.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Steal away! I got tired of going so far back in the media memory, to insert yours, and too lazy to just move a copy up to be handy, so I stole somebody else’s FF Flag. 🙂
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Cake looks great. there is nothing wrong with my memory, its just I seemed to have lost the access password. Delightful story.
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Maybe that’s what I was looking for in the basement. If I find it, I’ll tell you…. maybe. 😉
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If I open all the cupboard doors perhaps I will find the way to a sunnier climate, I can but dream,
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Have you ever read, ‘The Door Into Summer,’ by Robert Heinlein? A novel where one of the significant characters is Petronius (Pete) the cat, always looking for an exit which will lead to sun and warmth. 🙂
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A crammed and overflowing memory is brought on by a fulfilled life. Better that than having nothing worth remembering!
Here’s my story
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I am always happy for the lovely memories that I can access. 😀
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I’m not sure I would enjoy being uploaded to a computer…
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If it were a choice between that, and dying of cancer, it might be the lesser of two evils. I hope I never have to make the decision. 😳
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Interesting. What or who would decide which memories to drop? I know we do this all the time but having someone or something outside of ourselves making those decisions is frightening. Maybe there is no choice now either. How does our brain prioritize memories? You left me thinking.
Tracey
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Starting about 1976, American Sci-Fi writer, Frederick Pohl, explored the theme of augmented humanity. The first was titled ‘Man Plus.’ Then he wrote a trilogy about Mankind dealing with ETs in their region of space. I believe the 1980, second book, titled ‘Beyond The Blue Event Horizon was the one that introduced the man-in-a-computer idea. https://www.bing.com/search?q=beyond+the+blue+event+horizon+frederik+pohl&form=PRCAEN&httpsmsn=1&refig=a648c444402e4f979ac00d794aff303c&sp=2&qs=AS&pq=beyond+the+blue+event&sk=PRES1AS1&sc=2-21&cvid=a648c444402e4f979ac00d794aff303c
You might find it, or all, interesting reads. It was cutting edge back when many had not even heard of computers. I don’t recall de-frags, or memory-dumps. Those were my invention. 🙂
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It could happen. I used to read a lot of sci fi and enjoyed it.
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I think that the possibility is still some distance in the future, but the quantum computers necessary seem to be developing rapidly. Maybe my kids will see it. 🙂
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I’m glad you can smile about it. It scares me.
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