When I write this… what happens to it? The ideas are mine, right? This text dates April 5th, 2019. Is that when this was first published?
This idea proposed in this text becomes popular. It’s the kindling which fuels new concepts. It’s something that generates new concepts. It brings about a new way of thinking about a topic.
My idea. Was that written April 5th, 2019? Did it receive negative press? Was it rewritten? Did it evolve? Was it actually written on April 5th, 2019?
The web is ephemeral. The concepts derived from it are ephemeral. The line of thinking is ephemeral. And realistically we can never know which ideas were the original catalysts for movements.
Or more negatively, we are at risk of a big brother scenario until this can be fixed. Our entire history can be re written by editing a few Wikipedia articles. This problem becomes even larger as our populations memory consistently worsens while we rely on technology to supplement it.
Somewhere in the world, someone is whispering “Blockchain” as the solution. Guess we’ll see.
*Note this was originally written on wordpress. Hilariously enough, the whole point of this post became fact!