What societies build upon depends not only upon what they preserve, but also upon their capacity to sustain continuity between past observations and future understanding.

What societies build upon depends not only upon what they preserve, but also upon their capacity to sustain continuity between past observations and future understanding. - Frank C. Gahl (Distributed Witnessing as an Emerging Informational Condition)

Context: Distributed Witnessing as an Emerging Informational Condition