If you could take it with you, what would you take?

I'd spend a few weeks writing a set of incredibly convincing essays arguing that the reader should attempt to revive me. They would be aimed at a few major possible future civilizations, based on my best extrapolations of current civilization. I'd try to appeal to future values in as general a way as possible, while remaining convincing. I'd write them in English.

If you get revived, it's going to be because someone decided to revive you; they have total power over you before they revive you, so bringing a weapon wouldn't be very helpful. In fact, I probably wouldn't revive someone who put a weapon in their time capsule, at least without arming myself first!

Long-term archival DVDs, such as M-Discs, containing as much of his personal computer's data as possible. With slimline jewel cases, around 400 such discs would fit, which could hold up to around 1.5 terabytes. (Secondary question: Which data to archive?)

The first rule of backuping up data is that you are not selective; or if you are selective, you use a blacklist (excluding big useless things like swap files) rather than a whitelist (because you will forget to put something on it).

When storing large numbers of optical disks, you use spindles rather than jewel cases; this approximately doubles the density. But I'm not convinced that archival-grade optical disks are better than regular hard disk drives or flash memory, particularly if you spread across a few different types of media and use large par files; in particular, optical disks are very expensive, and you have no guarantee that they will live up to their durability claims.

A stone tablet reading "Do not revive until there are holodecks."

whatever book I was in the middle of when I died.

• Objects with present-day value: cash, gold coins, jewelry

Hmm, what if a future society could produce enough gold through advanced nucleosynthesis that it becomes a throwaway commodity like our current use of aluminum?

I've asked gold standard advocates this question, and I haven't seen a good response. In fact, the question makes them uncomfortable because it generates cognitive dissonance. Basically they've adopted the Thomas Malthus position on gold, and the Julian L. Simon position on every other resource.

As many bottles of wine as can fit.

An essay describing my best understanding of who I am, going from trivial details like name, date of birth and standard biographical details to all sorts of very subjective psychological self-assessments. The cover page would instruct the reader to go write a similar essay from memory before reading further, and then to compare notes with what's written in the old essay.

Bonus points for figuring out a way to store a cryptographic checksum of the original essay in a future-proof way, so I could tell if the essay contents had been altered after I deposited it.

Identifying documents (e.g., birth certificate, social security card, passport) and financial records.

I definitely wouldn't include a weapon.

An accurate encyclopedic description of contemporary life/society/events, and recent history, along with a list of significant events I was personally a witness to during my life. Something to make a future archeologist want to thaw me for an interview.

Yeah, I'd just take some sentimental value stuff. Gifts that remind me of family, some books I own, maybe vacuum-pack my favorite blanket (it's a seriously good blanket).

In a worldstate whitch involves the reviving of cryonicly stored people, I would expect a weapon would be one of the last things on my list of things I would need. That is to say, a world which has sufficiently advanced technology, sufficient resorces, and so on to revive cryonicly stored people would not be a wolrd were civilisation has colapsed, not be a world were order has broken down, and in other words would be a world in which a weapon would be about as useful as a weapon is in a first world country today, which is to say, it would be not all that esential.

If you can't trust the motives of the agent reviving you, you're screwed anyway, so I'd focus on things you'd regret not having. For me, I'd try to store any information that might otherwise be lost to entropy (including my forgetful memory): originals or backups of my journals, correspondence, etc. (Keepsakes are probably not worth the space, unless quite unique.)

If i'm bringing data I'd want a in depth blueprint of how to construct a reader for that storage medium, ideally inscribed on Gold/Diamond plates, since I've no guarantee that whoever revives me has access to relevant technology.

If I'm doing that anyway I'd probably bury a few copies of my own data, as much as I could get of the internet and the reader blueprints in various places on the earth [and if funding permits in orbits/Lagrange points]. Even if I don't survive I'd value the knowledge being preserved.

I'd write the conversion rates for all those crazy box size measures to meters, because I have no idea if that is something the size of a telephone, a computer screen, a soccer ball or a baseball bat.