Why memories matter in an age of relentless change

Almost in the blink of an eye, 2025 has gone and a new year is upon us. In an age when the next gadget arrives before we have even finished reading the manual of the last, it is easy to become enamored with tomorrow’s technologies and ideas. But progress without memory is like a ship without a compass, steaming ahead without any idea where it is heading. The building blocks of our individual and collective identities are recollections and relics that tell us who we are — and explain how we became that person or that community.

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