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008 211209s2022 ncua b 001 0 eng
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020 _a9781469668284
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020 _a1469668289
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035 _a(OCoLC)1266896736
042 _apcc
043 _an-us---
092 _a027.073
_bM978
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aMurphy, Brian Michael,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWe the dead :
_bpreserving data at the end of the world /
_cBrian Michael Murphy.
264 1 _aChapel Hill :
_bThe University of North Carolina Press,
_c[2022]
300 _a316 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 0 _aI 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.
650 0 _aArchives
_xCollection management
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aRecords
_zUnited States
_xManagement
_xHistory.
650 0 _aStorage facilities
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aData centers
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aData warehousing
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDigital preservation
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
994 _aC0
_bNFG
999 _c376501
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