In the novel's preface, Chabon writes, "I have stuck to facts except where facts refused to conform with memory, narrative purpose, or the truth as I prefer to understand it".
Whether or not these facts are true or a collection of unreliable memories, the purpose and consequence of the litigation in Lawrence does not change: the Constitution prohibits the government from intruding on and punishing the private, consensual intimate relations that we have.
Triggering memories on purpose isn't nearly as fun as having one come as surprise.
Additionally, it uses shared memory for the purposes of communication.
Perhaps intellectual memory serves some purposes and bodily memory serves others.
Particular attention is given to the representation of the road map and to the management of a cache memory for efficiency purposes.
This may be required for limiting the usage of resources, for instance transmission bandwidth or storage memory; for summarization purposes; or even for relieving the user from information overload.
We are, and ever must be, creatures of our own time, tempted to bend memory to current purposes, to expurgate histories that make us uncomfortable, to dismiss newly discovered facts that dispute our sunny recollections of bygone days.
On the completion of this task, BootX takes over the startup process configuring the keyboard and display, claiming and reserving memory for various purposes and checking to see if various key combinations are being pressed.
When they looked within, some found that they had selves — constellations of memories, ideas, and purposes that emerged from the systems inside.
