Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud.

Each week we ask three writers from the magazine to read their pieces aloud.

I'm Natasha and here's what we have this week.

Sam Leith asks if technology is killing our children's nostalgia.

Kate Andrews writes about why she's torn over Liz Truss,

and Toby Young tells us about his holiday to Iceland.

First up, Sam Leith.

The latest trend among the signs of Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012,

is posting throwback videos on TikTok.

Talk about a snake eating its tail.

Having reached the ripe old age of, say, 11, Generation Z is digging through their archives

to offer a one critique of that embarrassing haircut they sported in the dim and distant past of, say, 18 months ago, or reminiscing with friends about Snapchat filters we all used to use.

That's silly, but it's also a little sad. As we ponder world historical events on a 10, 20 or 50 year timeline, the long-term effects of Brexit,

the resettling of the status quo in European security, even the climate crisis,

it's somehow easy to miss changes that are potentially even more lasting and fundamental.

This apparently inconsequential story strikes me as an epiphenomenon of one of them.

That is, gradually, and without all that much fanfare, a whole generation of digital natives

have come to adulthood in a world in which the past is no longer the past in the sense in which we're accustomed to understand it.

Nothing is forgotten.

Almost everything you've experienced, every action you've taken,

is in a radically chronicled somewhere in the cloud.

Memory can't play you false or burn as your past with rosy recollection.

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