Being away from the text for 10+ days let me look at it “clean” (more or less) and I needed to remind myself of details, so I spent most of the day’s work yesterday reading and editing the first 200 pages.\u00a0\u00a0 That lopped over into today, as well.\u00a0 This isn’t anything like a final edit, but it is “sweeping and dusting ” (relative to the use of chainsaw and machete which accompanies structural editing.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Added some ideas to the Ideas file, as well, and did more thinking about Grace Lane Vatta’s checkered past and what other buried stresses might lie beneath the appearance of comfortable, successful family businesses (not just Vatta’s.)\u00a0\u00a0 Also, though we hope tech gets better and better in every way, my experience is that we trade convenience and speed for durability and the longevity of data storage…starting with the move from carved stone through baked clay and on up to the many varieties of electronic data storage which–if you don’t have the resources to buy the newest latest form and the time (or staff) to transfer files–means your data aren’t permanent at all.\u00a0\u00a0 So what is the average time that memory in a brain implant would be durable?\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Requires some thinking on.\u00a0\u00a0 And how does brain injury or degradation of mental function by something like Alzheimer’s interact with a brain implant?\u00a0 Also hmmmm.<\/p>\n
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