You Can Do It With A Montage!
Reading this I was (of course) reminded of several memory-related items. The first being of the movie Johnny Mnemonic, made in 1995 starring Keanu Reeves. The second, and much more interesting I believe, is a mnemonic device which I don’t remember where I learned (irony!). I googled relevant terms and what I came up with were two systems called “Roman Room” and “Town”. These are essentially the same, where you set up a building or room in your mind and link things that you want to remember to whatever is in the buildings or rooms. These made complete sense in the context of “Condominiums in Data Space”.
It also made me think about a show I saw last night on The Discovery Channel called Time Warp where a video engineer at MIT takes high (1000) fps video of various things and then manipulates the video to show exactly what happened. In the first episode he shows a glass shattering from noise, a dog drinking water, a baloon popping, and a guy getting punched in the face. Oh yeah. It’s awesome.
on March 20th, 2008 at 12:12 am
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on March 20th, 2008 at 12:38 am
This reminds me of something Sherlock Holmes once said in “A Study in Scarlet:”
“You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
on March 20th, 2008 at 8:39 am
I think its a concept that has always sort of interestingly existed within the creative realm, but this reading articulates it.
Or maybe it doesn’t, but we sort of get it.