Living Stories

There is a tiny fraction of artifacts (historic buildings, heirlooms) and living things (prized pets, zoo animals, human retirees recognized as human by working people) that are special atoms in the immaterial culture quadrant because they either cannot be made purely digital (ie put in a form where the material embodiment is of no interest, as in the case of living things) or because we have some sentimental attachment to the specific embodiment. These are artifacts that have become living stories.