The Artikel '"Memories for life" Managing information over a human lifetime', (pdf) by Andrew Fitzgibbon and Ehud Reiter concerns itself with the need to store, search and model all our vast amounts of digital information for life.

"This tsunami of data presents numerous challenges to computer science, including: how to physically store such "digital memories" over decades; how to protect privacy, especially when data such as photos may involve more than one person; how to extract useful knowledge from this rich library of information; how to use this knowledge effectively, for example in knowledge-based systems; and how to effectively present memories and knowledge to different kinds of users. The unifying grand challenge is to manage this data, these digital memories, for the benefit of human life and for a lifetime."