Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459755857)

Safeguarding collective wisdom is a powerful tool for civilization to overcome the major upheavals ahead.

Climate change, civil unrest, wars: How will we make it through the tough times looming ahead of us? By remembering, Mary Soderstrom argues.

Ours is not the first time in history when catastrophe has threatened societies, and using examples from China, the Roman Empire, and North American Indigenous cultures, Soderstrom shows how memory can lead the way toward the future. Before We Forget examines how memory works in people and then details how we store our collective memories in libraries and archives, as well as in the vastness of the electronic universe.

In part an entertaining history of knowledge and where we keep it, Before We Forget allays fears and encourages people to develop strategies for safeguarding collective and individual wisdom, which we will need to meet the challenges ahead.

Author: Mary Soderstrom
ISBN-10: 1459755855
ISBN-13: 9781459755857
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2026
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback