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“What societies value is what they memorize. And how they
memorize it and who has access to its memorized form determines
who has power.”
We’re starting to become a society that “memorizes” private facts
— not just public records being written down, but private
thoughts, dreams and wishes.
“Living largely in a world of expensive written material and
seeking to build a private database of things experienced and
learned, early modern Europeans built in their minds memory
palaces — imaginary rooms furnished with complex bric-a-brac and
decorations. . . By walking through the rooms of the memory
palace in their minds, [they] remembered things they needed to
know.”
Photographs took a factual and emotional snapshot of experience …
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