And I like to think that perhaps in another 50 years, audiences will be watching this play to remember how we remembered.
It begins with a rising, elegiac banjo line, like something you might play to remember someone, then Brickell sings, "When you get to Asheville, send me an e-mail, tell me how you're doing, how it's treating you".
But a better game to play, to remember the man by, might well be 1986's Commodore 64 adventure based on the dark children's fantasy movie Labyrinth, in which Bowie played the primary antagonist, the aforementioned Goblin King, Jareth.
To make some of the plays easier to remember, they are referred to by names of players or popular TV shows.
But he continued both to teach and to write; even in the last months of his life, he produced several poems, and a new play, Ways to Remember.
If it were truly troubling for our dreams to be altered by our technological enhancements, we wouldn't be able to dream any bigger than "standing naked in a cave, supposed to star in the school play, unable to remember any lines, but totally unaware of it because nobody ever invented drama or school or writing or language".
The players still tap an old piece of plywood from 1988, with a team motto — 48 minutes to play, a lifetime to remember — spelled out in blue tape.
So Mickey and Minnie Mouse can be manipulated, subverted, played with, made to remember things that never happened and, one imagines, made to forget things that did.
I don't want to remember playing the Z100 Jingle Ball.
