Transient Memory as a Counter Factual & Mediating Lens

Transient memory is almost a counter-factual in itself. In a world with rapidly developing technology, we have increased power to store memory. Examples of this are CCTV and the new generation of social media where we can view our entire history with those website i.e. for those that are highly active on facebook they have a record of a lot of their history in images and interactions with other members.

It is a subversion of hoarding, of keeping diaries, of storytelling. Can we view Transient Memory' as a 'mediating' lens for which to design new things from. What new value can current things have if transient memory is applied to some element of them?

What if books were transient? What if the words faded from the pages and would be lost forever unless they were read.

False memories might become more common: if there was no solid record of something i.e. a photo or a note in a notebook, we'd have to rely on our memories which are notoriously susceptible to degradation and interference. We might have more false memories. We might have to have increasingly good working memories to compensate for not being able to write things down. We might have to develop new and better ways to remember things i.e. aborignal song maps http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/article/living-songs-music-law-and-culture-in-aboriginal-australia as mentioned earlier on in this project.