Clive Thompson on Memory Engineering | Magazine - 0 views
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a new trend I call memory engineering — the process of fashioning our inchoate digital pasts into useful memories.
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Many of us generate massive amounts of personal data every day — phonecam pictures, text messages, status updates, and so on. By default, all of us are becoming lifeloggers. But we almost never go back and look at this stuff, because it’s too hard to parse.
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Memory engineers are solving that problem by creating services that reformat that data in witty, often artistic ways.
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