What societies expect to remember

Palm-leaf manuscript, Sanskrit Epsilon 1. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Reading Naomi Alderman’s don’t burn anyone at the stake today (which is excellent, by the way, you should definitely read it) got me thinking about how each major communication technology reshapes not only how societies store and disseminate information, but how they organise power, trust, and…