Help Wanted
I'm imagining a new job. We could call it the Personal Data Assistant, or "PDA". For most people, their PDA would be a part time role, perhaps just needing a couple of hours a week. This would be a highly trusted role, just like a PA, but with a different set of specialist skills. The Personal Data Assistant would do all the tedious tasks which one ought to do around personal data - creating it, sharing it, securing it, archiving it, curating it. Sure, there are tools for some of these tasks, but none of them operate without manual intervention, and these tasks tend to be either tedious work which we avoid doing at all, or tricky things which could more quickly and effectively done by an expert. So, what would my PDA do? He would archive and preserve my old emails and files, which I don't usually do very well. I, like Bill Thompson with his Zip disks , have old files on old disks which are running a serious risk of becoming unopenable and unpreservable; I think...