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Digital Dark Age: a cautionary tale
Digital Dark Age: a cautionary tale

Digital Dark Age: a cautionary tale

 

Written by Matthew Connell, Louise Preston and Helen Whitty. Illustrated by Matt Huynh
$15.95 ($14.50 member price)
[prices shown are in Australian dollars and include GST]
ISBN 978 1 86317 136 6
paperback, 52 pages, 200 x 200 mm
20 original colour illustrations
Publisher: Powerhouse Publishing
Distributor: NewSouth Books,
Published: October 2011

This is not a shaggy dog story, although a dog carries the tale through history starting with the campfire. Digital Dark Age cleverly illustrates some of the important technologies we have invented to capture our stories and carry their threads across space and time.

We live in the present and embrace new technologies that move at a faster and faster pace, but without effective systems in place to store our memories is it possible that, as Mark Twain once wrote, in the future we won?t recall ?any but the things that never happened??

This is the cautionary note: the more complex the technology we make to keep our records the less control we have over our ideas, our writings, our photos, our history and arguably ourselves. The dog hasn?t swallowed our story; we are simply unleashing it with our love of new technology. Is there nothing that can be done? Read this new book for some great tips on saving our past and present for the future.

A Powerhouse Museum and Parramatta Heritage and Visitor Information Centre Partnership


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