It used to take about three generations before everything you love fades from public memory. Now it's less than one. Soon Warhol's adage will be proven right:

It used to take about three generations before everything you love fades from public memory. Now it's less than one. Soon Warhol's adage will be proven right: 15 minutes will be the lifespan of not just fame, but of all shared memory. Soon thereafter, all individual memories will last just 15 minutes. Then long term memory will no longer exist. 7 +/-2 will be the maxim of all existence.