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100 1 $aRumsey, Abby Smith,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhen we are no more :$bhow digital memory is shaping our future /$cAbby Smith Rumsey.
246 30 $aHow digital memory is shaping our future
264 1 $aNew York, NY, USA :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2016.
264 4 $c℗♭2016
300 $a229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-216) and index.
505 00 $tMemory on display --$tHow curiosity created culture --$tWhat the Greeks thought : from accounting to aesthetics --$tWhere dead people talk --$tThe dream of the universal library --$tMaterialism : the world is very old and knows everything --$tThe science of memory and the art of forgetting --$tImagination : memory in the future tense --$tMastering memory in the digital age --$tBy memory of ourselves.
520 $aExamines how humanity records and passes on its culture to future generations, from the libraries of antiquity to the excess of information available in the digital age, and how ephemeral digital storage methods present a challenge for passing on current cultural memory to the future.
520 $a"Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us invaluable perspective on our past and define our future. Today, we stand at the very edge of a vast, uncharted digital landscape, where our collective memory is stored in ephemeral bits and bytes and lives in air-conditioned server rooms. What sources will historians turn to in 100, let alone 1,000 years to understand our own time if all of our memory lives in digital codes that may no longer be decipherable? In When We Are No More Abby Smith Rumsey explores human memory from pre-history to the present to shed light on the grand challenge facing our world--the abundance of information and scarcity of human attention. Tracing the story from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls, to movable type, books, and the birth of the Library of Congress, Rumsey weaves a compelling narrative that explores how humans have dealt with the problem of too much information throughout our history, and indeed how we might begin solve the same problem for our digital future. Serving as a call to consciousness, When We Are No More explains why data storage is not memory; why forgetting is the first step towards remembering; and above all, why memory is about the future, not the past. "If we're thinking 1,000 years, 3,000 years ahead in the future, we have to ask ourselves, how do we preserve all the bits that we need in order to correctly interpret the digital objects we create? We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it." --Vint Cerf, Chief Evangelist at Google, at a press conference in February, 2015." -- Publisher's description
650 0 $aDocumentation.
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650 0 $aInformation science.
650 0 $aInformation science$xHistory.
650 0 $aCollective memory.
650 0 $aInformation retrieval.
650 0 $aInformation retrieval$xHistory.
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