Date: May 10, 2009
"Rather than storehouses of in-depth information, the web is turning our brains into indexes."
preview | full record— Suderman, Peter
Date: September 5, 2011
"He [Derek Parfit] pictures his thinking self as a government minister sitting behind a large desk, who writes a question on a piece of paper and puts it in his out-tray. The minister then sits idly at the desk, twiddling his thumbs, while in some back room civil servants labor furiously, come up...
preview | full record— MacFarquhar, Larissa
Date: March 5, 2015
"We all have crowded bookshelves in our heads crammed with texts for every person we know. They knock about in our skulls, falling off the shelves. We refer to them again and again, wearing the pages thin."
preview | full record— Grossman-Heinze, Dahlia
Date: June 30, 2017
"Or consider living with an unending library of easily recalled memories. It would be overwhelming: Dates, names, phone numbers -- they would all be constantly top of mind."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: May 4, 2018
"In this labyrinth, Nietzsche detected the handwriting of envy everywhere, observing, 'Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul.'"
preview | full record— Marino, Gordon