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Could anyone find a picture of "memory hole"?

 
 
Reply Fri 29 Nov, 2013 10:59 am

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A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a web site or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened.[1][2] The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four where Big Brother's Ministry of Truth systematically re-created all potential historical documents, —in effect; re-writing all of history to match the often-changing state propaganda. These changes were complete and undetectable.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four the memory hole is a small chute leading to a large incinerator used for censorship:[3]

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.[4]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole
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Reply Fri 29 Nov, 2013 11:06 am
@oristarA,
It's a science fiction device.

Most governments try to use this device/function but it almost always fail, as seen recently in Snowden's case.

http://www.cejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/media-memory-hole.jpg
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Reply Sat 30 Nov, 2013 02:33 am
You will never find a picture of a 'memory hole' because it is a concept. Originally seen as a fictional destruction device in '1984', but later used as a metaphor for any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records.
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