Memory may not be what you think: Both the ancient Greeks and other modern scientists offer theories of memory that expand far beyond our own brains. This book, “The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind” is a beautiful exploration of ancient memory and the radical transformation we went through as we went from communicating orally [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
origins of "Mnemograph"
December 22, 2007 – 10:35 pm
Mnemograph is a classic greek/latin construction: “mnemo” referring to Mnemosyne, the ancient muse of memory; “graph”, as we know, from the greek graphikos, relating to written words and pictures. In ancient (Greek and other cultures’) understanding, memory was understood to be something like a river in the spirit world — a resource to which [...]
Introduction
December 22, 2007 – 10:04 pm
About three years ago, I had a revelation about “search” and news archives: Why did I need to have a search term in order to view a newspaper’s online archives? I was “browsing” through the New York Times’s archives, wishing I could recall (I mean have help recalling) in a general way what [...]