What the Forest Remembers

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The technology is so powerful that it's also like, here's what they were thinking. Here's some things they didn't even know they were noticing. You are getting unfettered versions of yourself if you're going back and watching your own brain cube. I just thought about like, what if listening to myself talk was five times worse than it is? Well, no, oh, no, there's some middle chat. I can't do it anymore.

It only took 500-or-so episodes to revisit the world of Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. We did, of course, have to wait for Egan to write her sequel (sort of) novel. This follow-up to a post-postmodern classic is focused on memories (digital and otherwise) and relationships (virtual and otherwise). It's got "what if the Meta but for everyone's memories" okay??

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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