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About Emmortality

Emmortality Worldwide is intended to be a history of the human race, told in the first person by the people who lived it. It also offers the living a way to memorialize those who are no longer alive. But to really begin to understand what Emmortality is about, imagine that it is 100, 500, or even 1,000 years from now, and you are reading the things posted to Emmortality in 2007, or 2272. It would be like going to a web site today and reading the personal writings of a carpenter in the 12th Century, or a horse trainer in ancient Rome.

However, Emmortality is vastly different than the records that have survived from our past, even our recent past. How many personal documents have survived from World War I? Or the 1970s? Or even a decade ago? Sure, there is the odd diary or journal, but they don’t tend to survive more than a few decades at most. Only rarely do you see one that survives more than a few years longer than its author. Why? Mainly because there has never been a reasonable way to preserve such records other than handing them down to a family member. But Emmortality changes that forever.

Now anyone can record their thoughts, feelings, values, fears, knowledge, wisdom, and dreams, in words, sounds, pictures or moving images, and preserve them in perpetuity, so that future generations will have access to it all.

The effect of this kind of ability on the level of intimacy between us humans will be incalculable. It will transform the term “family of man” from a cliché to a truly descriptive phrase. And we are fortunate enough to be in on the ground floor, as they say.

So as you look around our site, and as you add your own content to this growing history of humanity, be aware that you are contributing to a new and unprecedented tool through which we shall all be linked for all time. As the body of content preserved here grows, its true nature and significance will become more and more evident. For now, just enjoy. And thank-you for your participation. Without you, there are pages missing from the most important history book every written.