TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murphy,Brian Michael
TI  - We the dead: preserving data at the end of the world 
SN  - 9781469668284
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Archives
KW  - Collection management
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Records
KW  - Management
KW  - Storage facilities
KW  - Data centers
KW  - Data warehousing
KW  - Digital preservation
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -