memory

What matters more is how we relate with memory, that is to say how we look back to understand our history and retroactively give meaning and context to our lives

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are so abstracted from how humans experience memory.

History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread

Before a tipping point in a complex system, there are early warning signals that may be detected.14 The most widely applicable of these early warning signals is “critical slowing down”—the phenomenon we are all familiar with before our computer crashes, and rather than heed the implications of this slower processing power, we jam at the keys in