Introducing the 20th Century Memory Theory by Michael D. B. Duong
What if immortality isn’t some far-off dream?
What if you’ve already started building your afterlife—one upload at a time?
Every time you snap a photo, record a voice memo, write a blog post, or save a journal entry, you’re preserving a digital shard of your soul. Over time, these fragments form a mosaic of your identity—your humor, your pain, your decisions, your voice. This isn’t nostalgia. This is memory externalized.
I call this the 20th Century Memory Theory:
The idea that, for the first time in human history, our memories aren’t trapped in our minds. They’re archived. Curated. Re-experienced. And eventually… transferable.
What happens when we can re-upload those memories into new vessels—biological, robotic, or digital?
What happens when your essence continues, evolving long after your body ends?
We’re not just documenting life anymore.
We’re quietly rehearsing resurrection.
This is the beginning of digital eternity.
And we’re already living it.
Let me know what you’d preserve about yourself. Or what you’d hope your future self remembers.