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The Memory Box
Most of you have had a calling. This is part of our mythic human story, the call. When I saw that story, it called out to me. It was as if everthing I had done to that moment made sense. Years of political organizing, years of developing community-based theater work, colloborating with numerous solo theater performers. I could look back and see that training and look forward a dozen years and see the task of my life. Helping people tell stories in this new type of storytelling tool, digital media. What I saw was not about a cheap form of broadcast production, a easier way to make a slide show, an new toolset for video editors, it was about a completely different way to think about memory. I knew enough about computing then to know that by this year, we would have machines costing barely over $1000 dollars that could store all the images of our lives, hours of videotape, and the text of our stories. The personal computer would become, it is becoming, our memory box. |
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