Monday, August 27, 2012
Technology Saves Too Much Information?
Reading the article from TechNews Daily mostly posed more questions of what is stacked against historians in the future. How will research be done when most people are constantly archiving their own lives everyday? Will that change the information we see as pertinent and relevant? In future historical biographies, will there be chapters dedicated to our leaders' correspondence on twitter or facebook during their college years? (Let's hope not for all our sakes!) These questions are the reasons, that I chose to further my knowledge in digital history. If third parties, like museums and libraries, making historical documents digitally accessible is considered innovative then I can't imagine how history will be portrayed when everyone gets to write their own history on a day to day basis. Hopefully as this class (or my career) develops I will be able to answer or possibly at least be able to theorize in depth the answers to these questions.
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