Visiting these memorized places, one revives the fact to be recalled. This discussion of memory offers a different interpretation of the parallels between human and computer memory. The rhetorician was to recall a physical space within his mind; the image is not simply what is projected upon a physical space but also the space for projection. Similarly, computer memory(which too is organized spatially) is a storage medium like paper, but not quite. Both degenerate, revealing the limitations of the simile.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory