We the dead : preserving data at the end of the world /
Murphy, Brian Michael,
We the dead : preserving data at the end of the world / Brian Michael Murphy. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I will survive? -- Gas chambers for bookworms -- We the dead -- Bombproof cavemen -- The weight of a cloud -- The satellite graveyard -- Save file as...DNA -- After life.
"Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. This book traces the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world"--
9781469668284 1469668289
2021058924
Archives--Collection management--History.--United States
Records--Management--History.--United States
Storage facilities--History.--United States
Data centers--History.--United States
Data warehousing--History.--United States
Digital preservation--History.--United States
We the dead : preserving data at the end of the world / Brian Michael Murphy. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I will survive? -- Gas chambers for bookworms -- We the dead -- Bombproof cavemen -- The weight of a cloud -- The satellite graveyard -- Save file as...DNA -- After life.
"Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. This book traces the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world"--
9781469668284 1469668289
2021058924
Archives--Collection management--History.--United States
Records--Management--History.--United States
Storage facilities--History.--United States
Data centers--History.--United States
Data warehousing--History.--United States
Digital preservation--History.--United States