16^th July 2012

The Future of Memory

In his À la recherche du temps perdu Marcel Proust writes of memories unfurling and unfolding like Japanese paper flowers suspended in water – from small seedlike bundles into fragile and exquisite… Read article

By night Jonathan Gray is doing a PhD in philosophy and the history of ideas at Royal Holloway, University of London. By day he works at the Open Knowledge Foundation, where he gently encourages governments and galleries, libraries and laboratories to open up their material. More about him can be found at jonathangray.org. @jwyg