impermanent memory isn't inherently undesirable
- levels of archival quality mediums
- is it desirable to have digital memory fade at a human rate?
- is any rate we attempt to choose just arbitrary?
- desirability of remembering and forgetting are contextual, relational and situational
- where/should we ever enforce complete deletion and where is ‘resurfacing’ valuable?
- “the impermanent qualities of media increasingly rendered as mere deficiencies, and hence targets to be combated.” ⤴️ (Smolicki, 2017)
- ““questions of forgetting and degradation are turned into problems for media to solve”(Chun, 2008, p.155).” ⤴️ (Smolicki, 2017)
- ““I hate to lose my memories. I want Total Recall,” asserts Bell in the introductory lines to his book, warning the reader that, in the near future, “those who shun recording will be less empowered than those who embrace it” (Bell and Gemmell, 2009, p.21).” (Smolicki, 2017)
- “recognizing the value of “fallible organic memory”” (Smolicki, 2017)
- “Respecting the capacity and fallibility of organic memory” (Smolicki, 2017)