An undergraduate essay on the "anthropology" of 2025 memory-positive ai

Over the past year or two I have taken 3 classes at the University of Minnesota through their state mandated Senior Citizen Education Program (SCEP) . I enjoy the professors, the students, and the learning. One of my most recent classes was in "economic anthropology", which I understand to be the study of premodern exchange, value, commerce, trade and related interactions embedded in a 'total…