75. Scrolling memories

Another short one. Again in the service of shorter attention spans and quicker responses.

Charlie Wurzel’s recent rumination on abundant personal digital storage and the near endless scroll of our digital photo libraries on our smartphones builds on a lot of the stories of the past decade or so about the ‘effect’ we are noticing as we reach near ubiquitous computing in our lives is a good read. Ubiquitous storage is starting to shape our memories and narratives in way that, in old world cyborg way. We are being augmented and changed in the process. Wurzel writes,