Russell Davies on how the services we use today can serve as a collective family photo album to reminisce about things gone away.

I’m certainly not the first to realise or write about this effect but doing this really struck home how powerful things like Street View and geo-tagged Flickr will be as remembering tools. Not just remembering things you’ve got pictures of, but the things implied and stirred by the pictures. So they’re not just tools for locating yourself or your objects, but for locating your memories and exchanging them with others.

tags:forgetting memory remebering

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Written by sean (contact).

It was written on April 7th, 2009 at 11:15 am
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