memory

 

flight path

 

5 years from now

aerial cameras will be so small cheap fast and out of control

they will fly in and out of our houses

 

10 years from now they will

flick in & out of our mouths

 

pores, thoughts, lives, memories

flocks of them, mountains of footage,

assembling & distorting in algorithmic heaps

 

autonomous raw phenomenological data

 


“Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey. These reports form the heart of the 2009 Annual Report. From parents to old friends, to people I met for the first time, to my dentist… any time I felt that someone had discerned enough of my personality and activities, they were given a card with a URL and unique number to record their experience.”

“Using the protein regulator of G protein signaling–14 (RGS-14) as a tool, we found that the expression of this protein into layer 6 neurons of rat-brain area V2 promoted the conversion of a normal short-term ORM that normally lasts for 45 minutes into long-term memory detectable even after many months.”

Role of Layer 6 of V2 Visual Cortex in Object-Recognition Memory — López-Aranda et al. 325 (5936): 87 — Science

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Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

“…question—How in your opinion are we to prevent war?—still unanswered.”