Imagine waking up tomorrow and discovering that all the world’s ink had become invisible and all our bytes had disappeared. Our world would immediately crumble. Literature, music, law, politics, science, math: Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories. If memory is our means of preserving that which we consider most valuable, it is also painfully linked to our own transience. When we die, our memories die with us. In a sense, the elaborate system of externalized memory we’ve created is a way of fending off mortality. It allows ideas to be efficiently passed across time and
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el almacenar la sabiduria del zser.humano en libros,etc es una forma de lograr la inmortalidad.NO es lo mismo tenerlo en nuestra memoria interna que cuando morimos desaparece que en libros,etc que zse conserva a traves del tiempo
