🌻 internet archive - by Jasmine Sun - half-baked futures

When we are thrust out into the world just as we are, we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice, with that accident organized by the divine computer: to get over our surprise that precisely this (what we see facing us in the mirror) is our self. — Milan Kundera, “Immortality” When I open my Photos app, I’m greeted by a carousel of snapshots from the last ten years of my life. A collage of pictures with my roommate Victoria, from Chengdu night markets to college graduation. A “Best of” album for March 2017, which features contextless pictures of debate practice, a vegetable omelet, and the parking spot for my old car. A side-by-side comparison of a blurry selfie I took four years ago and one I took today. A video of my shaky hands. Between slides, I’m prompted to attach titles to specific days—they’ll be easier to catalog and search that way—then share the finished “memories” on social media. Since the early days of this feature, Google has gotten much better at d

When we are thrust out into the world just as we are, we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice, with that accident organized by the divine computer: to get over our surprise that precisely this (what we see facing us in the mirror) is our self. — Milan Kundera, “Immortality” When I open my Photos app, I’m greeted by a carousel of snapshots from the last ten years of my life. A collage of pictures with my roommate Victoria, from Chengdu night markets to college graduation. A “Best of” album for March 2017, which features contextless pictures of debate practice, a vegetab