I’ve sent e-cards as well but there’s something to a card with Grandpa’s signature and greeting on it. It’ll be hard for the granddaughters to put an e-card in their cedar chests to remember me with when I have expired.
My husband and I were just discussing this. I believe people will create electronic memory chests and carry them around in decorative thumb drives or whatever replaces them.
A friend’s mother, now 97, has a huge box of greeting cards that go back decades. Her family just rolls eyes and is talking about scanning some of the more *important* ones, but the granddaughters, now married in their 30s, aren’t interested.
I believe when we are gone and the world goes on, we are simply remembered until there is no one left who actually knew us. Then, I fear we are simply forgotten, except perhaps as a genealogical note.