Not only is it too soon to celebrate, we are now plunging headlong into economic catastrophe in the west, leaving the reins of true power firmly grasped in the hands of the architects of this misery - the banks.

“Forgetting plays a central role in human decision-making,” he argues. “It lets us act in time, cognizant of, but not shackled by, past events.” Not quite. If you forget something then by the very nature of forgetting you cannot be cognizant of the past. Memory is important. Learning the lessons of past mistakes is something we have failed to do for thousands of years. Digital memory makes it easy to review past history and keep the lessons of mistakes past clearly in mind so that they can be accounted for this time around. More importantly, this new ability to "remember" is vitally important for citizens. It is very easy for leaders and elected officials to gloss over past misdeeds. But now they can be held to account. Digital memory puts power in the hands of individual people and this is a very good thing. It is true that one can be shackled by fear if one attempts to live in the past. But memory itself is not responsible for fear. Only the human heart and ignorance of the facts bring fear. Memory then serves to shine a light on the road traveled. It helps us to get our bearings on our current position in life. And helps us to define our next starting point for new action.

In and around the hedge, nomatter what they try and sell you, it's always Groundhog Day. Always. Only the groundhogs have now completely morphed into lemmings, vaunting rancid vaporware as though it were The New Commodity. Even so, not all of them jump at once. Why, you ask? Here's why: because it would be just too fantastic if that entire species were to become suddenly extinct.

Analogy: a smoker is found to have an early lung cancer. It is pointless to debated whether he should either (a) stop smoking or (b) have the cancer excised. He must do both. We must Both decarbonise our economy (which will itself deliver a much wanted boost to the world economy by creating jobs in energy conservation and renewables)and sequester the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It's a bit like walking along and chewing gum at the same time. Some cannot do this, but most, with a little application, find that they can.