Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory. It’s called genes. To solve the future, we must save the past.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
Challenging the past as a viable template for the future is an important part of envisioning and enacting new futures. The parts of the brain responsible for creative imagination are directly linked to those that store and manage memories. Our ideas about the future are essentially tapestries remixed from of our memories of former days.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
Imagination was so close to memory. When you pictured the future hard enough, it could feel like the past.