Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
We can invent only with memory.
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
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