Children growing up today won't experience their memories as physical things in the way that earlier generations did. No photo albums or VHS cassettes, no letters. They will leave behind a more ephemeral inheritance - a digital mausoleum in the form of defunct Instagram posts and dormant TikTok accounts.
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
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We lose control over those artifacts if they are on platforms owned by large corporations like Meta or Google, we lose the tactile experience of holding in our hands something touched by an ancestor or made by another human being for us, we lose those many physical prompts of memory. We lose a sense of our fragility and limits, and, as a result, and understanding of what it means to be an embodied human being.
From:
The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen
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