Halcyon Identifies

 

An online memorial site allows family and friends to gather and remember loved ones through stories, photos etc.

 

Neuroscientists are beginning to explore techniques that could erase bad memories from our minds.

 

Today we speak with one another in c.7000 languages; but it’s estimated that 90% of these will be gone by 2050.

A long-term tracking study suggests that people vastly underreport the amount of mental illness they’ve suffered.

Authentic experiences, remembered in context, are more powerful than "happiness in a can".

A new technology based on carbon nanotubes promises to preserve individual bits of data permanently, which, it is claimed, could lead to data archives holding the entirety of human communication, potentially forever.

Responses - 21/01/08

• Legacy/Memory - in some countries, sound archives are being created to record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day societies as possible.

Responses - 11/11/07

• Memory - remembrance of people and things and times past.

Responses - 07/11/07

• Memory - rare manuscripts, maps, books, musical scores, sound recordings, films, prints and photographs will all be available online thanks to a new UNESCO-backed World Digital Library.

Responses - 04/06/07

• Diversity - scientists are creating an "encyclopedia of life" to aggregate data about every known living species. It will need continuous updating: a purple fluorescent frog is one of 24 new species just found in Surinam.
• Habitat - cities in emerging countries are becoming increasingly competitive against their old world rivals.
• Memory - forgetting might be a key part of the process of remembering.