Chapter 1: Digital Memories and the Personal Content Explosion 9 and others. Our purpose is not to merely present the applications, but to gain an understanding of the underlying features and regularities more generic in nature. Chapter 8: Timeshifting Life Chapter 8 takes a look at the future. We try to identify trends and weak signals that can be extrapolated from the topics presented, and make assumptions about things to come and how to react to them. We also present some future requirements, and technological enablers that could potentially fulfi l them. We also discuss potential threats and risks related to the digitalization of our personal histories. We consider whether it is desirable to be able to store almost everything in one’s life versus discrete fragments, resulting in what we refer to as timeshift- ing life. Now that we have introduced the contents, let us continue with the trends that have brought us to where we, the new nomads, are today.