Generating Digital Wealth

Practically everyone born after the advent of sound and movie recording appreciates the value of commercially produced items.

BlockBuster Movies, Gold Records, and the wealth and fame that can come from being in the film or music business.

Home Movies - Mix Tapes - but not much else…. 

Despite our recognition that fortunes can be made ‘professionally’, few of us put any value on the recordings done at home, by families, during this same period. Sadly, because of that, practically all of these early period recordings survive when passed from on from previous generations 

(Öh, no…. Not another “home Movie Night!”) 

Moving into the First Digital Generation, all of that has changed: 

• “Get Back”, the 2021 documentary using film shot more than 50 years ago, introduced new forms of RESOLUTION (visual, audio, and contextual) that, as they might have said back in the 60's, ‘blew our minds’. 
• Those old boxes of photos, 8mm film, audio cassettes, and virtually anything written on any form of media (while they still exist),are the new veins of wealth, just waiting to be discovered and processed. Every one holds meaning, which is, after all, what we were expecting to find in the Information Age.

Once digitized, anything and everything can be preserved, collected, curated, remixed, and shared with others, virtually at any time.

The story Acres of Diamonds shared the concept of finding wealth in your own backyard. It was and still remains a wonderfully inspiring message.
In so many ways, that message is for us all. Every one of us, every family, in every corner of the world, is surrounded by things that, if left unattended, will decay and disappear, and all their value lost. In this First Digital Generation, we have only to step outside, open a few boxes, or explore an old warehouse. It may not look like it, but it's all pure Gold, waiting to be discovered, processed, and preserved for all future generations.