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Archives: Anchors For Attention
We return to the book in its original form, then, held in our hands to discover that the future of information and knowledge has always been right there on our shelves. It’s presented not as a nostalgic reference to the analog medium, but rather as a concrete necessity to univocally approach the organized content of a single creator with a coherent... See more
Lidewij Edelkoort Talks Books, Analog vs. Digital, and the Metaverse
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment. We frame... See more
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
“Our respect for attention is in decline. Timeless and eternal truths are forgotten in favor of breaking news and "what's trending."
Instead of deliberately choosing what to consume, we surrender to opaque algorithms that don’t always have our best interests in mind.
The alternative is an intentional and self-directed information diet - the pursuit
... See moreWe appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we create.