At first, I thought clinging to our current system was just nostalgia. But it’s more than that; it is, perhaps, a symptom of the modern condition. We don’t know what the near future is going to look like—technologically or politically. Change seems to come more outrageously every year. And the more things change, the more we feel the need to anchor ourselves to the past. Street addresses have become one way to remember. And remembering is one thing digital addresses cannot do. Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, at the edge of Syria, houses almost eighty thousand refugees, with thirty-two schools
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