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Content & Intro by John Perry Barlow
Rated Sep 10 2008 • 2 reviews • cyberculture • craphound.com
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Caucasus foes fight cyber war
Rated Aug 14 2008 • 2 reviews • computers, crime, cyberculture, warfare • bbc.co.uk
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Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace, Meet in Egypt - WSJ.com
Rated Aug 12 2008 • 0 reviews • cyberculture, internet • wsj.com
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Plurk is a social journal for your life
Rated Jul 20 2008 • 47 reviews • cyberculture • plurk.com
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The Huge Entity: Hyper-Real Wikipedia and the Evolution...
Rated Feb 17 2008 • 3 reviews • cyberculture, psychology • huge-entity.com
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HorizonZero Issue 18 : GHOST
Rated Nov 28 2007 • 1 review • cyberculture, library resources, books • horizonzero.ca
hervé fischer
thoughts on the sophisticated fragility of digitized memory
. . . We must recognize that cyberspace is in no way transparent, homogeneous, or accessible to all, as we hear repeated endlessly with Utopian satisfaction. On the contrary, the more that cyberspace grows, and the more objects that are deposited there by people, the more it becomes abstruse and hidden. It too has its proprietary territories, its secret access codes, its zones of oblivion and erasure, its black holes, worms, viruses, pirates, and bugs that can destroy entire countries. And, quite simply, the dynamic of technological progress that we justifiably seek, and the impossibility of constantly adapting an ever greater number of digital files to new formats, new algorithms, new software, readers, and navigators, leads (according to the technology's own logic) to obsolescence and the loss of data we had believed to be deposited there in complete security forever! Will technology resolve this paradox, which comes about because technological progress leads to the disappearance of prior technology?
Now is the time to mention one of the thirty paradoxical laws that I listed in my book Le choc du numérique: The more sophisticated our technology becomes, the more fragile and ephemeral the digital memory of the content that we store within it.
We must stress this paradox at a time when Heritage Canada has decided once again to increase its budget (2004-05) for the digitization of cultural objects, at the cost of reducing the budget allocated to cultural creation.
The content of an optical disc lasts far less time (about ten years) than a paper book, a reel of 35mm film, a Dead Sea Scroll, a prehistoric painting in the Chauvet Cave (32,000 years old and still intact!), or the clay footprints of three hominidae, two adults and a child, in Laetoli, Tanzania, which are 3.6 million years old. Digital camera buffs, remember: it would be wise to print your pictures on paper! . . .
