# We Are Becoming Cannibals of Our Recorded History by Hans Ulrich Obrist > "As our lives become increasingly recorded, archived and accessed we have become cannibals obsessed with consuming our history and terrified of transgressing its established norms." > **— Hans Ulrich Obrist**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [The Future Is Blocked To Us](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26241) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Hans Ulrich Obrist; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Behavioral Prediction|Behavioral Prediction]] - [[wiki/Memory Architecture|Memory Architecture]] - [[wiki/Prediction Is Not Jurisdiction|Prediction Is Not Jurisdiction]] - [[wiki/Digital Continuity|Digital Continuity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "As our lives become increasingly recorded, archived and accessed we have become cannibals obsessed with consuming our history and terrified of transgressing its established norms." — Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-hans-obrist-becoming-cannibals-recorded-history ```