Historical Trails
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Historical Trails
Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. It makes us feel like we’re moving forward through time, rather than standing still or running in circles. My grandmother and her ancestors knew this all too well. Artful forgetting, editing, and curation allowed them to craft narratives that helped their children understand the past and orient towards the future... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
the internet is now so embedded within the human developmental process.
it's not merely a collection of servers and clients.
its evolutions shape us with each passing generation.
in turn, we shape its evolution, feeding into what it has fed us.
it follows from 4E cogsci that app/site interfaces will drastically affect our cognitive development. at leas
... See moreThis stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
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