When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

And it was not a technical innovation that set us on the present course, but an idea. That was the radically transformative idea that the universe and all that exists is no more and no less than the material effect of material causes.

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

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

Culture provides the large-scale framework for memory and meaning. It aids in the creation of new knowledge, but it also acts as a filter that over time determines what is of long-term value from the social perspective.

Creativity flows from the suspended state of mind in which knowledge is nothing and attention is everything.

Because imagination is memory in the future tense.

web pages lasted an average of forty-four days before changing or disappearing altogether.

Digital memory is ubiquitous yet unimaginably fragile, limitless in scope yet inherently unstable.

The moral of the story is that in Paradise, there is no curiosity.