‘If somebody could retain in his memory everything he had experienced, if he could at any time call up any fragment of his past, he would be nothing like human beings: neither his loves nor his friendship would resemble ours’ [Milan Kundera, “Ignorance” (2000), 123] Genuinely wonder about this. Moores law and the continuing encheapening of external memory, plus the ease with which we can access it, makes Kunderas hypothetical a plausible outcome, and quite possibly something that will come to pass sooner rather than later. Were it to pass, would it alter us so profoundly?
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:15:16 +0000
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