The aim here is to work on a project that create a sustainable archive of cultural and personal conversations and oral histories.
It's a story that presents the issue of cultural legacy starting from an intimate / personal / local level but brings these considerations forwards towards the future as we look at the impact of technology on our social lives.
To implement this I'm working with Ward Cunningham (the inventor of the wiki) and projects such as Brewster Kahle's Way Back Machine, Juan Bennet's InterPlanetary File System, and a blockchain project called the Eternity Wall.
This work involves issues of law and finance addressing the question of how we might finance the archiving for eternity of a single web page or memory through the creation of a legal foundation. The question the talk would ask would be "How much does it cost to archive a memory forever?"