Created to loop silently in the background of a library-sponsored book group discussion of Joshua Foer's Moonwalking With Einstein in November 2014, this show consists primarily of quotations and from the book.

2. The Digital Brain Health Market, 2012-2020 (http://www.sharpbrains.com)

3. Lumosity
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Memrise
Founded by Ed Cooke
Fit Brains
Owned by Rosetta Stone

4. Elevate
Eidetic
CogniFit

5. “The brain makes sense up
close and from far away. It’s
the in-between—the stuff of
thought and memory, the
language of the brain—that
remains a profound mystery.”
(page 34)

6. baker

7. “…when it comes to
chunking—and to our memory
more broadly—what we
already know determines what
we’re able to learn.”
(page 62)

8. “Monotony collapses
time; novelty unfolds it.”
(page 77)

9. Background image from
http://www.jrbenjamin.com)
“Socrates thought the
unexamined life
was not worth living. How much more so
the unremembered life?”
(page 78)
“Writing, for Socrates, could never
be anything more than a cue
for memory—a way of calling to mind
information already in one’s head.”
(page 139)

10. (Quoted on page 110.
“Stacks” image by Roman
Boed, CC-BY-2.0 on Flickr.)
One book, printed in
the Heart’s own wax
Is worth a thousand
in the stacks.
-Jan Luyken

11. “As more and more of our lives move
online, more and more is being
captured and preserved in ways
that are dramatically changing
the relationship between our
internal and external memories.”
(page 156)

12. “Part of the reason
techniques like visual
imagery work so well is
that they enforce a degree
of attention and
mindfulness that is
normally lacking.”
(page 177)

13. “Creativity is, in a
sense, future
memory.”
- Tony Buzan
(Quoted on page 203. “The
Palette” by freeparking, CC-BY-
2.0 on Flickr.)

14. “How we perceive the
world and how we act in it
are products of what
and how we remember.
We’re all just a bundle of
habits shaped by our
memories.” (page 269)