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Ideas · Memory
…my indignation curdling into something less comfortable. I had thought of the archive as a memory and the council as an amnesiac. But the archive had been forgetting, deliberately and expertly, for more than…
Technology · Infrastructure
…and used today by 31,000 people. The dependencies form a map that Achterberg can draw from memory. Nobody else can. In 2009 there were 19 people on the team that maintained Cass. Most of them have since retired.…
Politics · Public works
…into the frame. Halloran is 61, a sheep farmer with a farmer’s handshake and a bookkeeper’s memory, and she has run Callow Vale for 11 years. In the autumn of 2020 she campaigned, loudly and at some personal cost,…
Politics · Government
…the next election. Castell was pleased and not reassured. In her experience, she said, the memory of a burst main lasts about two budget cycles. By then the hole has been filled, the van has been towed, the lane…
Science · Oceans
…recording. Neither could the reef. For now, the south rim of Merrow Atoll is listening to a memory of what it used to be. Whether it will ever sound like that again depends on things no speaker can play: cooler…
Culture · Small towns
…TWINS (NO SWAPPING). GORDON PYE, WHO WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE STARS. BISCUIT, A GOOD BOY. IN MEMORY OF NAN, WHO TALKED THROUGH EVERYTHING. Most of the names belong to people who are, at that moment, edging along…
Technology · Forecasting
…1987, and in 2017 volunteers typed up her 30 handwritten notebooks to give the model a long memory of the upper valley. Ellison is not especially impressed by the servers. “They’re very good at telling me what…