transience: nowadays people are both quicker to adopt and to abandon newtechnologies, services, jobs, and even relationships, presumably because: (1) it has become mucheasier to change such commitments; (2) there are so many more options to be explored; (3) new,and potentially better, options appear at an ever faster rate.

DHers peer with microscopes and macroscopes, looking into things we cannot see. And even while we delight in building the shiny and the new—and come to meetings like this to celebrate and share and advance that work—we know that someone, sooner or later, curates bits against our ruins.1