Memory Is Like A Spiderweb That Catches

Over The Last Few Millennia We've Invented A Series Of Technologies - From The Alphabet To The Scroll To The Codex, The Printing Press, Photography, The Computer, The Smartphone - That Have Made It Progressively Easier And Easier For Us To Externalize Our Memories, For Us To Essentially Outsource This Fundamental Human Capacity.

Jonah Lehrer Is One Of The Most Talented Explainers Of Science That We’ve Got. What A Pleasure It Is To Follow His Investigation Of Creativity And Its Sources. Imagine Is His Best Book Yet.

Invented Languages Have Often Been Created In Tandem With Entire Invented Universes, And Most Conlangers Come To Their Craft By Way Of Fantasy And Science Fiction.

Part Of Being Creative Is Not Being Super-duper Focused.

Once Upon A Time, This Idea Of Having A Trained, Disciplined, Cultivated Memory Was Not Nearly So Alien As It Would Seem To Us To Be Today.