{"id":3310,"date":"2018-05-30T23:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2018-05-30T23:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T03:58:50","slug":"remembering-to-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"remembering to forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a society, we have forgotten how to forget. We are addicted to <a href=\"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/04\/18\/digital-preservation\/#.Wwboj1Mvzgo\">storing<\/a>\u00a0<em>everything<\/em>\u00a0<strong>forever<\/strong>. Why?<\/p>\n<p>New Atlas had an <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/skyscraper-demolition-lifespan\/54703\">article<\/a> recently on the demise of skyscrapers in favor of new ones which starts off,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood at a height of around 460 feet for 4,500 years, but these days we are ripping down tall structures without even batting an eyelid. A new study looking at the average lifespan of demolished skyscrapers illustrates just how quick we are to pull the trigger, raising the question of how we could reimagine tower design so that they last centuries rather than decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I ask, first: why should we design things to &#8220;last centuries rather than decades&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the future impact of decisions made today must be carefully evaluated (&#8220;concrete cannot be recycled, and most of the tallest buildings in the world use concrete for their main structural system&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>But designing for &#8220;centuries&#8221; is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, it&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>the<\/em> answer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a panacea &#8211; though there may be some occasional use cases for expecting a structure to last generationally.<\/p>\n<p>But since time immemorial, buildings have\u00a0<em>mostly<\/em> been built with at least an unconscious knowledge they would\u00a0<em>not<\/em> exist &#8220;forever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, there are interesting historical sites (such as these now-destroyed Mayan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/may\/14\/mayan-pyramid-bulldozed-road-construction\">ruins<\/a>) that we might have\u00a0<em>liked<\/em> to keep. But reuse of old materials is part and parcel of civilizational progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a society, we have forgotten how to forget. We are addicted to storing\u00a0everything\u00a0forever. Why? New Atlas had an article recently on the demise of skyscrapers in favor of new ones which starts off, The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood at a height of around 460 feet for 4,500 years, but these days we &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3310\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">remembering to forget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[335,569,627,725],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-forget","tag-planning","tag-remembering","tag-storage"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}