The energy we pour into building archives of the past is transmuted into a means to condition our action in the future.

As the databases of the past grow in mass, their gravitational pull absorbs ever more of our attention and energy. Consequently, our capacity to inhabit the present and imagine the future deteriorates. The internet is Saturn devouring his children.

L. M. Sacasas
“We Are Not Living in a Simulation, We Are Living In the Past”
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