in 1997

What we call creativity is the use of mental content in contexts wildly unrelated to its source.

But the sense of meaning only arises from the context of what we perceive. Interactive timelines, maps, charts, and infographics are common now in presentations and online newspapers. They allow people to grasp the import of information quickly by arranging data schematically in a variety of contexts to reveal relationships.

it is our emotions that tell what is valuable for our survival and well-being.

During consolidation, content is abstracted from its native context and made available for reuse in other contexts.

First, as we learn more about the processes by which the past manufactures the future, we will use that knowledge to accelerate the growth of digital infrastructure, provide more secure stewardship of collective and personal memory, and reduce the risk of losing our past. Second, we will gain understanding of the complex processes by which Nature

The eerie certainty we have of existing as separate creatures in a world full of things that are not us, our ability to create abstract symbolic representations of our mental states and use language to communicate these interior states of mind—all

will shape our model of the world and vision of the future in three significant ways.

In use, they are placed within the environment of the present moment and that use becomes an intrinsic part of memory itself—the