Excerpt: “Keeping evidence from past paradigms of knowledge, even those long since discredited, is the cultural equivalent of carrying maladaptations in the genetic code. Years, centuries, millennia can pass. But when our environment suddenly changes, as it is changing now, it may be the odd trait, tradition, or idea we carry by accident that helps us to adapt.”

Rumsey, Abby Smith. (2016). When We Are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future. New York: Bloomsbury Press.