Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. (William Gibson)

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

William Gibson

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