The Guardian of All Things

"The Guardian of all things is the history of how humans have relentlessly pursued new ways to preserve and manage memory, both within the human brain and as a series of inventions external to it. Michael S. Malone looks at the story of memory, both human and mechanical, and the historic turning points in that story that have not only changed our relationship to memory, but have also changed our human fabric. Full of anecdotes, history, and advances of civilization and technology, The Guardian of all things is a lively, epic journey along a trajectory of history no other book has ever described, one that will appeal to the curious as well as the specialist."--Publisher description.