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When we are no more how digital memory is shaping our future

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.

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Main Author: Smith Rumsey, Abby (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Documentation.
Documentation > History.
Information science.
Information science > History.
Collective memory.
Information retrieval.
Information retrieval > History.
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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.
Physical Description:229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index.
ISBN:9781620408025
1620408023
Author Notes:Abby Smith Rumsey is a historian who writes about how ideas and information technologies shape perceptions of history, of time, and of personal and cultural identity. Trained at Harvard as a Russian scholar, she has worked in Soviet-era archives, spent a decade at the Library of Congress, and has consulted on digital collecting and curation, intellectual property issues, and the economics of digital information for a variety of universities and the National Science Foundation. She lives in San Francisco.

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