Our Future Environment

“In an increasingly disposable world, efforts to preserve and catalogue our analogue and digital lives could change the nature of history as we know it….’Digitisation really has the profound effect of democratising access,” says Prof Stephen Brier of the City University of New York Graduate Center, a historian and co-director of the school’s New Media Lab. It gives access to people to materials and documents that would previously only be accessible to very few.’ ”

BBC News - Ravers and time travellers re-record history

Filed under: technology, future on November 11th, 2011