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When we are no more : how digital memory is shaping our future / Abby Smith Rumsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith Rumsey, Abby, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentation.
- Documentation--History.
- Information science.
- Information science--History.
- History.
- Collective memory.
- Information retrieval.
- Information retrieval--History.
- Physical Description:
- 229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Where we come from
- 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
- Where we are
- 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
- Where are we going
- By memory of ourselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781620408025
- 1620408023
- OCLC:
- 889164325
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