Summer of Protocols

As part of the Edge City Protocol Worlds track last week, I hosted a session called Memory Models Book Club. We read excerpts from Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe to compare the phase shifts engendered in part by the printing press to today's phase shift from computing and AI. 

It featured many of my favorite things, like the art of memory, plus a story about Louis XVI being recognized fleeing Paris, and even a roughly hewn hypothesis about "memory realism," challenging the notion of the printing press as only a reproductive technology for the written word. 

This session will give way to an enduring Memory Research Group, which I'll share more information on soon.

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paper still dominates, obvious in DAO governance