It's a good thing that people forget...

Reading '100 things every designer needs to know about people'. A book about human psychology and how this should affect design choice. Human psychology in particular cognitive psychology (the way the mind works) lead this project and

Chapter 25 on p58: It's a good thing that people forget.

'It's actually not a flaw. Think about all the sensory inputs and experiences you have every minute, every day, and throughout your lifetime. If you remembered every thing you'd have to forget some things. Your brain is constantly deciding what to remember and what to forget. It doesn't always make decisions that you find helpful, but in general, the decisions it makes (primarily unconscious) are keeping you alive!'.

So forgetting is important. We are constantly developing new ways to preserve the past or capture things, but a contrast to these various systems is they system of 'transient memory', as proposed in this project.

Can it be fun? Can it be functional?

In 1886 Hermann Ebbinghaus developed a formula to show the degradation of memories called the 'forgetting curve'

Taken from http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/theboymustdie/68901-The-Forgetting-Curve