On humanity’s longstanding preoccupation of erasing its own history, and how, in the digital era, that intent remains strong.

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Socrates warned in Plato’s “Phaedrus” that the invention of writing destroyed memory… More recently, the typewriter enabled the production of far more paperwork, raising profound anxieties about the number of lost, displaced, and missing documents.

↩︎ The New York Times

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