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Remembering to Forget

“Reminiscence—not forgetting—faces extinction in a digital age that prioritizes the present over even the recent past,” writes Evgeny Morozov for the Boston Review.
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“Reminiscence—not forgetting—faces extinction in a digital age that prioritizes the present over even the recent past,” writes Evgeny Morozov for the Boston Review. “What we treasure most about our memories is not our GPS coordinates or body temperature at those moments, but the totality of experiences we felt.”

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