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"Meet the scribe"

Historical memory is on life support.

'You're right. Our old safety files have become a safety concern.'

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"Oops! I just deleted all your files. Can you repeat everything you've ever told me?"

Office worker pushing a pile of papers on trolley.

Letter Collecting Nerd

'From albums to 8-tracks to cassettes to CD's...What a long, loud trip it's been!'

Bobbies library of jeans

Catalogue of little books.

(No caption. Signs on file cabinets drawers read, "Files Saved to Hard Drive," "Files Saved to Disk," "Files Saved to Traveldrive," "Trash.")

"I think I'll keep a diary..."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

"The arms reduction talks are off to a good start -so far, we've agreed to ban pebbles."

Attic of hopes and dreams...

'Does anyone know where we keep the unwritten rules?'

"Could you speak a little louder? I'm recording this."

'It's the Mesolithic Age? - But I just got used to the PALEOlithic!'

'I need a lot of trunk space.'

'Lost Diary'

Today's alpha-lesson is "Keep a journal." The average person lets life pass them by. The events of their lives fade into nothingness. An alpha knows that long after they're gone, their thoughts and experiences will be of great interest to historians. That's not an original thought. I read it in the papyrus Randus Maximus XIV left in a safe deposit box after he helped conquer Judea.

'The last Doctor to go into medical records has still not been found.'

Magic Ring to gain entry into Tolkien Archive

"What's this? Now we have to hunt, gather and collate?"

Dive in Archive.

Doo inc..can and no can.

"I'm still looking, sir?"

'I can't remember the title,but it was on a little white piece of paper.'

"Here is the one pager we all agreed on..."

"I'm collecting everyday objects for a time capsule."

Computer Address Book.

Library. Frank, I need to locate some biographies. Do you know where these are? This King Tut book is stored in a box down in the basement. The Napoleon biography is with the short stories. And the Henry Ford book is in the autobiography section. Unfortunately, this Amelia Earhart profile is missing. It mysteriously disappeared years ago. And what about the Albert Einstein bio? It's right up there, on the top shelf. The book about Einstein and his theories is way over your head, Ernie!