Random(ly) Access(ed) Memory
Ramifications — origin story for a new/old/now paradigm
Once upon a multiple, unquantifiable time, in an integrated circuit made of millions of transistors and capacitors — a memory controller [now, inside this very machine] told tiny bag-like capacitors that they are either empty (0) or full (1)[1]. But there’s a problem — complication — in a millisecond they become empty, just like human memory, these points need constant re-reading and re-writing. The memory controller runs this spinning-plate cycle thousands of times a second — an array of filled or left empty. From humble 0s and 1s, a structure of information is formed read from or written to in any order, a non-linear prism, a marvel of silicon architecture and also, a really human metaphorical lens.
In its this-way-that-way-anyway access array, RAM is an always becoming map[2]. We can use it to hold streams of consciousness, crossroads, highways, metaphors, whole oceans, language and city blocks, suspended and/or moving, relative to each other, always in motion, click on, click off, always in relativity.
‘In writing, musical notation, or computer memory, data are put in a virtual space a bit like the entanglement between an Atlantic ship and the Greenwich…
