For the human condition, forgetting is at least as important as remembering — sometimes more so. Without it, we are all bound to lead the miserable life of A. R. Luria’s patient Solomon Shereshevsky, who was crippled by his boundless, indelible memory, or his fictional counterpart, Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes.
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Like many people, I’m really looking forward to the UK publication of David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum. This graphic might come as a surprise to some people. If the main way you’ve found out about social media is through conference programmes and the most frequently cited blog posts, you could not be blamed for We have no idea, do we, of where this stuff will be in the future? “The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.” That’s what Omar Khayyam wrote. But |             | |||
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