"Our popular culture of the present moment is permeated with nostalgia for earlier iterations of the web, stories of a time when the internet was the milieu of the weird — of “wizards and geeks,” in the words of a 2006 Pew report. Yet these _...Read More_

>"Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer"

I'm no great expert on what is lindy and what isn't lindy. My best understanding is that it’s a relative heuristic: things which have been around longer are more likely to stay around longer. What’s more likely to be standing in 1000 years: _...Read More_

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"Each memory is in different strokes: how four siblings remember their dissident parents during Brazil’s military dictatorship"

THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 2020 now feel less like memory than alternate history. In January, reports of a “novel coronavirus” spreading through Wuhan, China registered to most Americans—if they _...Read More_

>"As an external and increasingly intelligent form of memory, AI can broaden the effects of writing systems on the physical borders of the human mind."

>"In a new collection, German writer Judith Schalansky seeks to reinvent that which has been irretrievably lost to history."

>"On how to address tradition, incorporate re-invention, enabling the past to percolate the present as an ongoing unfolding into the future"

‘‘A selection of Van Gogh’s correspondence gives us a fuller picture of the man behind the mercurial reputation.’’

>"A look back at the greatest of all time."