"Even our simplest snapshots are complex documents. They are records of the present, made for the purpose of showing, sometime in the future, what the past looked like. As we pass from the age of machines, through the age of electronics and into cyberspace, change now occurs too quickly for us to observe, to absorb...to remember. Our snapshots, our momentos, our relics, have become more dear to us than ever. They ease the disorientation that comes with change. They comfort us. They give us something to hold on to. Pictures create a by-product we call nostalgia--a longing for how life was (or how we wish it had been) at the moment stopped by the camera. In a world of information overload and emotional disconnection, these little scraps of paper are our last, best way to declare, 'I was here. This was me.'" --from Time Magazine