We spent time on devices. We perceive the world through lenses and microphones. We resigned our cognition to technical machines.
The memory of love, of human courtship, is inscribed in machines, chat histories, colorful images, more or less charming little films, personal messages, and any kind of digital auxiliaries. We rely on this. We generate romantic emotions from this. We make decisions based on this.
Likewise, wars and military conflicts generate a plethora of data from their ‘cognitive‘ sensorial activities – from seeing with drones, detecting with satellites, and communicating with headsets – generating data – generating memories. We observe it with objection but acknowledge its relentless functionality.
AI increasingly fashions the storage of all these human and non-human memories – including all logical operations to synthesize our collective and personal recollections.
Mostly perceived as a threat, it indeed is a unique chance for mankind to forget, to hand over an ocean of memories to machines – to engage in a collective amnesia.