When we are no more : how digital memory is shaping our future / Abby Smith Rumsey.

  • Rumsey, Abby Smith
Date:
2016
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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

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PQK.AM
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ISBN

  • 1620408023
  • 9781620408025