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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.