Injecting Dreams into Cows

The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole

72 the seDuctIveness oF the memory hole “He crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.” —George Orwell, 1984 We have an invention. We invented it. What you do is, you email us the thing that you want to forget. You list every detail. You describe in full. When we get the email, we delete it. We don’t just delete the email. We delete the thing. The thing never happened. No one involved will remember it; no one who heard the story will repeat it; even you yourself will forget it. We have done it already. We are doing it right now. ...