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Please read and make a refission for you Best Read [ When We Are No More ] by [ Abby Smith Rumsey ] – kino-fada.fr When a book discusses the Sumerian cuneiform, ancient Greek mnemonics, Gutenberg s press, Thomas Jefferson s personal library, and the Internet Archive, you know it s good.Assigned this book for my born digital archives class We skipped over thescience y chapters, but lots of great thought provoking stuff about preservation for people who aren t librarians.Seems like I m a sucker for books like these The meta of books repositories of information, and longevity and cultural memory beyond years and even decades.I got this book thinking that it would be smart to read about digital memories from someone who has thought about this for a while Rumsey is a historian from Harvard and the Library of Congress, working on digital collecting and curation She s in the middle of this complex area full of ideas, technologies, and practices Rumsey knows a lot about this area What does she know The thing is the book is full of good ideas, but they re sort o...This is a great primer on theories of personal and collective memory, as well as the evolution of our relationship to knowledge and information I wrote my undergraduate thesis about collective memory, so much of the book was already familiar to ...Excellent commentary and history of our past and what our future may hold.No spoilers below, but I will quote some memorable passages from the book itself There is no particular theme or thread to each of them, but they are the ones that spoke to me the clearest and most succinctly Acomplete list of some others that I thought were especially profound can be provided on request If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never w Excellent commentary and history of our past and what our future may hold.No spoilers below, but I will quote some memorable passages from the book itself There is no particular theme or thread to each of them, but they are the ones that spoke to me the clearest and most succinctly Acomplete list of some others that I thought were especially profound ca...Over 40,000 years ago, humans discovered a way to cheat death They transferred their thoughts, dreams, fears and hopes to physical materials that did not die Rumsey s opening to her book paints a harrowing picture of our race, and highlights what makes us different from all other sentient beingsthe want, no, need to preserve our own history When we are noexplores this need throughout history, from the burning of the great library of Alexandria to the 20 petabytes of data on the In Over 40,000 years ago, humans discovered a way to cheat death They transferred their thoughts, dreams, fears and hopes to physical materials that did not die Rumsey s opening to her book paints a harrowing picture of our race, and highlights what makes us different from all other sentient beingsthe want, no, need to preserve our own history When we are noexplores this need throughout histo...See my book review in American ArchivistThis is an earnest if not 100% revelatory pitch for historians to develop a serious rationale for and rules for creating digital archives The overarching call to save as much data as possible, while developing a framework to understand said data MEMORY, not mere HOARDING of data , will be familiar to those who ve read major digital humanities publications, or those who follow scholars like Johanna Drucker, Miriam Posner, Roy Rosenzweig, etc Yet Rumsey writes beautifully and she introduces the This is an earnest if not 100% revelatory pitch for historians to develop a serious rationale for and rules for creating digital archives The overarching call to save as much data as possible, while developing a framework to understand said data MEMORY, not mere HOARDING of data , will be familiar to those who ve read major digital humanities publications, or those who follow scholars like Johanna Drucker, Miriam Posner, Roy Rosenzweig, etc Yet Rumsey writes beautifully and she introduces these topics to a public audience Her application of memory heuristics the tricks humans use to memorize and understand information to the digital humanities is an inspired conceit, as it encourages readers to see computers ...Rumsey, Abby Smith When We Are No More How Digital Memory is Shaping our Future Bloomsbury Press, 2016 Rumsey observes that humans are unique among the species of this world Humans alone have the ability to extend their memories and presence Humans learned to use other instruments in order to increase memories Images on the walls of caves, pottery, written images on clay tablets, words on papyrus and paper, and the capturing of sound and images through the phonograph and photography Now, Rumsey, Abby Smith When We Are No More How Digital Memory is Shaping our Future Bloomsbury Press, 2016 Rumsey observes that humans are unique among the species of this world Humans alone have the ability to extend their memories and presence Humans learned to use other instruments in order to increase memories Images on the walls of caves, pottery, written images on clay tablets, words on pa...

When We Are No More
  • 22 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 240 pages
  • 1620408023
  • Abby Smith Rumsey
  • When We Are No More