It's interesting to consider what we, in our current ever-present-present, might think future generations will be interested in. We're probably wrong.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Randall Packer <rpac...@zakros.com> wrote: > Kath, you’re last remarks are particularly relevant in regards to the > emerging digital natives and millennials. My teaching is centered around > the study of the digital native as a kind of anthropological research. It > seems there is a clear trend towards giving up on privacy, and a growing > lack of concern for preservation, as you suggest. Of course when you are 20 > you might not think it is important to save anything, but in fact, we have > a social media industry focused on information as more and more transient. > The social media of today is about the NOW, what is at the top of our feed, > which comes to our screen in the Moment, and then fades in descending > chronological order into a past we are no longer interested in. As Douglas > Rushkoff has written in Present Shock, we live in an ever-present-present > tense, our abbreviated attention span revolving around the here and now. > > >>> I suppose it's really up to how much people care about these things, > and whether they work towards saving some of it or preparing for the > future. > > >> What in fact are we leaving behind for future generations on our hard > drives and cloud > repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed > when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our > historical past as we create it for the digital future? > > I think this is a real issue. though we try to save some things using > archives, the changing formats and technology (and speed of change) is > causing data to be lost or at the very least, harder/longer to > recover/republish (especially if they need converting later on). it's > covering both net art and personal items such as home photos which are > generally no longer printed, and home videos. I also wonder what future > archeologists will think of our surviving buried rubbish. so whilst I love > the net, I think it's important to go back to hand made physical art and > craft too. if there is some pulse in the future which wipes all the > technology we'll be left with a gap from our digital/online years. let's > hope the libraries survive. I've heard of projects such as printed copies > of Wikipedia, but I wonder how many they print and how distributed these > are. (plus how often as WP changes so quickly). in smaller communities such > as music communities (for one example), there's less event flyers printed > out - they are all online or (worse) only on Facebook as event listings, > which means they are lost over very short times. I suppose it's really up > to how much people care about these things, and whether they work towards > saving some of it or preparing for the future. > > looking forward to this month. checking out the artworks now - they're > looking great > thanks > > > On 3 March 2015 at 06:17, Randall Packer <rpac...@zakros.com> wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> Here are some questions to consider: >> >> Are we in fact producing a cultural history that emanates from the >> language of computers? Are the cultural references of today increasingly >> coded in numerical values that will need to be compiled and encoded in the >> far future by curious historians of the 21st century? What in fact are we >> leaving behind for future generations on our hard drives and cloud >> repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed >> when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our >> historical past as we create it for the digital future? >> >> Randall >> >> [snip] >> > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org *****************************
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