{"id":40920,"date":"2017-12-19T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=40920"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T17:12:11","slug":"elisabeth-ingram-wallace-opsnizing-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2017\/12\/19\/elisabeth-ingram-wallace-opsnizing-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Ingram-Wallace: Opsnizing Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I decided OPSNIZE was for me when Dad lost his trousers on the bus. He threw them out the window. Then he rolled around on the floor, screaming his own name, over and over, until some kid pushed a panic button. <\/span><\/p>\n

David<\/span><\/p>\n

David<\/span><\/p>\n

David<\/span><\/p>\n

That was his name. He wanted to hold on to it, for as long as he could.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whole weeks went by where he lost it, though. Just sat in a chair and occasionally allowed his skull to rotate around three-hundred and sixty degrees on his neck. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes an arm fell off. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dad was getting erratic like that, slipping up. His memory had been going for a while, hard disc scrapes, years of them. Then his drives got wiped, not once, but every time we had lightning. His flash memory was da<\/span>m<\/span>aged by the heatwaves last year. Then he fell asleep in the sun and blacked out for most of June. <\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t remember if it was always this way.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have always been flares. I know that. <\/span><\/p>\n

Solar bursts. Sometimes, they kill things. <\/span><\/p>\n

But not my Dad.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was deteriorating, that was true, after several thousand rewrite cycles. But he was still there, somewhere, inside. <\/span>Underneath.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

On bad nights, I blame myself. I should have coughed up more money when his troubles first started, a decade ago. But Dad had never been a fan of splashing the cash. The KAZ was cheap, and a decent bit of Tech. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe not enough to deal with Dad\u2019s memory problems, though.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Dad had been losing his memory for years, even when he was a young man. <\/span>Keys.<\/span> <\/span>Pens.<\/span> <\/span>Money.<\/span> <\/span>Umbrellas, his wallet.<\/span> <\/span>Even me, once.<\/span> He left me in a pub, I\u2019m still not sure they found me. The right me, I mean.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Dad was middle aged, he started putting the oven on, and going out for long night walks. He\u2019d pace circuits through industrial estates tracing out lost flight paths, past migrations, from childhood homes through decades, to better, bulldozed, <\/span>clearly<\/span> lit times. I\u2019d walk with him, and try to fill in the gaps.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dad insisted on driving, until the end. Even though he kept losing his car, he would stride for hours, circling streets until he found it. He would not give driving up. <\/span>Refused.<\/span> Like all the old-fashioned <\/span>things. Like map reading, and maps. He prided himself on knowing where he was, being Chief Nav<\/span>i<\/span>gator. <\/span>Up-front.<\/span> <\/span>The man with the compass.<\/span> <\/span>In charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He thought he owned the past. It was safe there.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, everything <\/span>oxidises<\/span>. Leave an apple out, it\u2019s going to turn brown, just like information. Leave memory out, it will go rusty after a few decades too, if it doesn\u2019t get scratched first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dad got scratched. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dad was the old order. He drank wine, beer, vodka. He ate, a lot. All junk. He had three concussions as a kid, too, <\/span>one playing rugby<\/span>, and two falling off things. He couldn\u2019t r<\/span>e<\/span>member what he fell off. And that was part of the problem. <\/span><\/p>\n

He kept falling, and falling and falling, and every time he crashed, his memory got chipped away, and he couldn\u2019t remember where or what to climb back on to.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Dad was still Dad. <\/span><\/p>\n

Even when he was uploaded, into a KAZ.<\/span><\/p>\n

He still lost things. <\/span>A robot arm.<\/span> <\/span>His trousers, on the bus.<\/span> <\/span>His name.<\/span><\/p>\n

But some of the fault was the KAZ failing, too. <\/span>In recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem with technology is<\/span>,<\/span> it dates. It\u2019s not like an a<\/span>p<\/span>ple. It doesn\u2019t have seeds in it, so that, even when the fruit shrivels and goes black, you can bury the a<\/span>p<\/span>ple, and it will grow a new tree, full of fresh juicy life. <\/span><\/p>\n

No. Technology just dies. <\/span><\/p>\n

OPSNIZE are giving me the hard sell. \u2018Safe long-term data storage is a concern for all of us. We must protect our f<\/span>u<\/span>ture, now.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

They call OPSNIZE \u2018a crystal fortress\u2019, like it\u2019s a cartoon, like I am a dumb kid and will fall for a superhero sales pitch. Secure data storage, a memory hold, <\/span>a<\/span> bank!<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is<\/span>,<\/span> I\u2019m already sold. I\u2019m wiped out.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been running after Dad for sixty-three years. My knees went to shit thirty years ago and my liver is mush. Maybe my memory is going to run out soon. <\/span><\/p>\n

The OPSNIZE Human Memory Glass Project will cost my house, my savings, <\/span>Dads\u2019<\/span> savings too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite this, I\u2019m in. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to OPSNIZING Dad. I\u2019ve spent a decade staring into his disposable KAZ green LED eye-bulbs and telling him not to rotate off the <\/span>kerb<\/span> and cause accidents; not to spin all night in the front garden when his fans get clogged with cat hair. I\u2019m fucking sick of the way his char<\/span>g<\/span>ing port bleeps at me and blinks orange then red then goes opaque grey and then blank. I stare at him sometimes and think<\/span>,<\/span> I\u2019m the one that plugs you in Dad. Me. No one else pays to keep your memory <\/span>alive. No one else gives a shit if your memories of thirty years\u2019 cheating on Mum are all lost for future intelligent alien life-forms.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The doctors here, sales-people to the core, say OPSNIZE Memory Glass can survive a nuclear holocaust and will pe<\/span>r<\/span>sist for upwards of ten billion years. Who wouldn\u2019t want that for their Dad?<\/span><\/p>\n

Who wouldn\u2019t want the day their Dad got drunk on peach schnapps and had sex with their fi<\/span>f<\/span>teen-year-old babysitter, when they were a child of seven, and in the same room, fused into quartz in five dimensions? <\/span><\/p>\n

That kind of epic <\/span>shittyness<\/span> deserves to be <\/span>memorialised<\/span> forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each time he screwed around with another broken woman, or punched me \u2013 crammed into another terabyte. <\/span><\/p>\n

All the times he got naked and touched himself in the street, when shit got bad, really bad, and the doctors said his memory is gone. <\/span>Euthanasia?<\/span> And I said no \u2013 no \u2013 no \u2013 no. Put to rest. <\/span><\/p>\n

He will be the size of a thumbnail. <\/span><\/p>\n

He will be written into glass, etched, as a series of defects. That sounds about right.<\/span><\/p>\n

He will be bulletproof. In case they still have bullets in ten billion years\u2019 time. <\/span>After the nuclear holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

He will be gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he will never ever be lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elisabeth Ingram Wallace<\/strong> lives in Glasgow. She writes flash fiction and short stories, and is writing a novel. She is a 2017 Scottish Book Trust “New Writers Award” winner, and has a Bath Flash Fiction Prize. Her writing is published in the Bath Flash Fiction Anthologies, New Writing Scotland, and b(OINK).<\/em><\/p>\n

This story was the winner of Writing the Future, the world’s largest health short story prize, which aims to bring together those working in health and healthcare with creative writers to think differently about the future and its implications for today. It’s run by Kaleidoscope<\/a>, a social enterprise set up to bring people together to improve health and care.<\/p>\n

Read about the judging process in this BMJ Opinion piece<\/a> by Richard Smith, one of the judges.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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