Name: We the Dead: Preserving Data at the end of the World (en Inglés)
Price: 49.14 EUR
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Author: Murphy, Brian Michael
ISBN: 9781469668284

portada We the Dead: Preserving Data at the end of the World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Brian Michael Murphy

Editorial

University of North Carolina Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.8 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781469668284

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Estudios étnicos
Historia de américa
Historia de la tecnología y la ingeniería

We the Dead: Preserving Data at the end of the World (en Inglés)

Brian Michael Murphy (Autor) · University of North Carolina Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "We the Dead: Preserving Data at the end of the World (en Inglés)"

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.We the Dead 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. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the white American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from microetched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA. Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex and the ways it increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine, biological body and data body, life and digital afterlife.