Mapping an 5,000 year journey from ancient scripts to digital futures Some projects begin as tools. Others begin as obsessions. In the wake of my essay The Long Memory of I AM, and while working on its companion piece, I Think, Therefore I AM, I found myself returning to a familiar question: How do words travel through time? Linguistically, culturally, mythically, geographically. Emotionally. As many of you know from my forensic folktale explorations, especially the Vasilisa