{"id":2076,"date":"2013-05-28T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/05\/28\/the-sharp-upswing-in-all-of-this-record-keeping\/"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T11:04:03","slug":"the-sharp-upswing-in-all-of-this-record-keeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/05\/28\/the-sharp-upswing-in-all-of-this-record-keeping\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The sharp upswing in all of this record-keeping \u2013 both active and passive \u2013 are redefining one of the core elements of what it means to be human, namely to remember. We are moving towards a culture that has outsourced this essential quality of existence to machines, to a vast and distributed prosthesis. This infrastructure exists right now, but very soon we\u2019ll be living with the first adult generation whose entire lives are embedded in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/response-detail\/11986\">Edge.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Slavin on The Ebb of Memory.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest. Brief but insightful.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/\">notational<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sharp upswing in all of this record-keeping \u2013 both active and passive \u2013 are redefining one of the core elements of what it means to be human, namely to remember. We are moving towards a culture that has outsourced this essential quality of existence to machines, to a vast and distributed prosthesis. This infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-xu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}