“and then it became blindingly obvious: all the memory that everybody keeps adding to their computers comes from people. nobody can remember a damn thing. every time somebody adds memory to their machine, 1000’s of people forget everything they knew.
— Andrei Codrescu, from the book of essays “101 Damnations”, excerpted and featured on this episode of the public radio show radiolab, entitled “Remembering and Forgetting” - highly worth listening.
