Memory, Self, Culture

In the end, we’re left with generally optimistic closing remarks about how memory adapts and evolves: “Some of that evolution invariably involves forgetting old ways, in order to free up time and space for new skills. Alexis Madrigal tells the remarkable story of an American scholar of medieval architecture, Andrew Tallon, who in 2010 began to digitally scan the cathedral:  “Tallon and Blaer’s laser data consist of 1 billion data points, structured as ‘point clouds,’ which software can render into images of the three-dimensional space. We might say, then, that the revealing that rules in contemporary technology is a challenging, which puts to nature and humanity the unreasonable demand that it supply data which can be extracted and stored as such.

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