# The Great Mistake Will Be Confusing Memory With Storage by Kevin Slavin > “In 1992, the artist Thomas Bayrle wrote that the great mistakes of the future would be that as everything became digital, we would confusememory with storage.” > **— Kevin Slavin, reporting Thomas Bayrle**, *2009, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [THE EBB OF MEMORY](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11986) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. - **Textual provenance note:** Edge's response page runs ‘confuse’ and ‘memory’ together as `confusememory`; that published artifact is retained rather than silently corrected. Slavin explicitly reports the proposition as Thomas Bayrle's 1992 statement. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Host Infrastructure Overview]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Memory Continuity|Memory Continuity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Memory Continuity|Memory Continuity]] - [[wiki/Memory Architecture|Memory Architecture]] - [[wiki/Knowledge Commons|Knowledge Commons]] - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “In 1992, the artist Thomas Bayrle wrote that the great mistakes of the future would be that as everything became digital, we would confusememory with storage.” — Kevin Slavin, reporting Thomas Bayrle, 2009, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-kevin-slavin-memory-versus-storage ```