How to Store and What to Store. Medium is the Memory

How to Store and What to Store.

In reality, what is the difference between a book ad a computer, between a movie and a novel? In reality, not much. As Florian Brody essay The Medium is the Memory explains such devices are simply places to hold memory. And by memory I don’t mean megabits and gigabits but no memory as information different forms of information. When one reads a book one sees the memory of a character or a tale. The same with a film or a TV show, although it is visual it is also the tale or memory of a person, event, ect.

Than what can I say is a computer simply the more advanced form of a book, in many ways yes it is. It allows us to engage in memory, weather or own or someone else’s. When we go to a website and read something there we are engaging in the memory of that websites information. But does advancing technology make the memory better? I’m not so sure. As Brody says early in his essay, “why take the trouble to dream when you can easily consume what has already been visualized?” I disagree with this, I think we should always dream because I guarantee if anyone else tries to visualize what we have already seen in our dreams they will always come up short. Just take a look at any book that has become a film.