So true. My parents didn’t miss out not having a camera phone and neither did my grandparents. It’s amazing how dependant we’ve become on capturing moments. Sometimes even to the detriment of actually experiencing them.
The human brain is way better at remembering where to find information than remembering information itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298470
We probably feel the need to preserve/hoard everything in a subconscious desire for immortality.
For example, I can go a whole vacation without taking any pictures. But with my kids I love to take their picture and get videos because they grow up so fast and it's fun now to go back and revisit a time when they were younger. They also love to see themselves when they were an age that they don't remember.