“…While the mind is a brilliant thing, it ultimately must prove to be an unreliable index -once its synapses are silent it remembers no more. The themes seen in Bennet et al (2005) and Massaro et al (2012) will be familiar to many, and were repeated in a number of Te Ara Paerangi -Future Pathways submissions, the cycle continues. In order to safeguard our history as we build a new future, we would be best served to store and index our collective wisdom where it is readily found and hard to forget.…”