When we are no more : how digital memory is shaping our future / Abby Smith Rumsey.
- Rumsey, Abby Smith
- Date:
- 2016
- Books
About this work
Also known as
How digital memory is shaping our future
Description
Examines 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.
Publication/Creation
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Physical description
229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
Contents
Memory on display -- How curiosity created culture -- What the Greeks thought : from accounting to aesthetics -- Where dead people talk -- The dream of the universal library -- Materialism : the world is very old and knows everything -- The science of memory and the art of forgetting -- Imagination : memory in the future tense -- Mastering memory in the digital age -- By memory of ourselves.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePQK.AMOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 1620408023
- 9781620408025