#digital amnesia

[fimbulvetr-now]

GG, History: Mario Maker, LiveJournal, and Memory Gaps

Who controls the past, controls the future. Where will we end up without a continual history?

Hey everyone, I wrote an article encapsulating some of my thoughts about memory, endings, and information in the digital age.

Topics include:

Mario Maker 1

Magnus Hirschfeld

LiveJournal

The Ace Community

Goncharov

And here's a little snippet from the introduction

I saw levels created for someone for their birthday, or featuring really innovative ways to play midi-esque snippets of songs or highly detailed pixel art made of nothing but Mario sprites. And now, at Nintendo’s whim (and no doubt ballooning server costs), that body of work will be gone forever... ...This article is going to be an attempt to make sense of my thoughts surrounding that, plus the ways we’ve generously placed our histories in the hands of private corporations and hoped like hell they wouldn’t just be arbitrarily erased, the more intentional disruptions of history various (typically marginalised) groups have suffered, and the fallout of that.

[tnlnyc]

Digital Amnesia

Now you can tear a building downBut you can’t erase a memoryThese houses may look all run downBut they have a value you can’t see – Open Letter (to a Landlord), Living Colour Something’s Rotten in the State of the Web The year was 1998. The number of broken weblinks in some of his documents ticked off Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. As head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he…

Digital Amnesia

[ricardodsanchez]

Digital Amnesia: Why We Forget the Little Things

Have you noticed how fewer people now remember names of top players from sports they don’t follow? Or how people don’t remember their favorite movies from one or two years ago? For example, our son was talking about the upcoming Olympic Games and more specifically about the U.S. basketball team. He was naming some of the top basketball players that are going to be part of the U.S. team and my…

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[claireexner-blog]

Digital dependence 'eroding human memory' - BBC News

An over-reliance on using computers and search engines is weakening people's memories, according to a study.

Dr Maria Wimber believes that digital trends negatively impact human memory.  She states that the habit of “looking up information prevents the buildup of longterm memory.”  With access to instant information, “looking up the answer” has become many people’s first resort in attempting to answer a question or recall a memory.  This had led to “digital amnesia,” as people have become used to looking up phone numbers, addresses, and other vital pieces of everyday information.  With technological advances such as autocorrect and autocomplete, I feel like I rely on these much more than I did even a few years ago.  I catch myself forgetting how to spell words when handwriting sometimes because I have become accustomed to letting the computer fix my mistakes.        

[nihilnonamenordstrom]

Digital Amnesia

Fragments of remembrance

are like a poem learned in childhood by rote

a novel line or two I wrote

 the rest being largely contributed by others

starting from memories with brothers and grandmothers

while accessing all those micro magical moments

not once did I let antipathy foment

knowing full well

nostalgia’s spell

lasts only so long

but broken bonds still stay strong

I learned without…

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[reflectiveroaming]

Documentary:  Digital Amnesia

Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? This VPRO Backlight documentary tracks down the amnesiac zeitgeist starting at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, whose world-famous 250-year old library was lost to budget cuts. The 400.000 Books were saved from the shredder by Ismail Serageldin, director of the world-famous Library of Alexandria, who is turning the legendary library of classical antiquity into a new knowledge hub for the digital world. Images as well as texts risk being lost in this ‘Digital Dark Age’. In an old McDonald’s restaurant in Mountain View, CA, retired NASA engineer Dennis Wingo is trying to retrieve the very first images of the moon. Upstate New York, Jason Scott has founded The Archive Team, a network of young activists that saves websites that are at risk of disappearing forever. In San Francisco, we visit Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive that’s going against the trend to destroy archives, and the Long Now Foundation, which has put the long-term back on the agenda by building a clock that only ticks once a year and should last 10,000 years, in an attempt to reconnect with generations thousands of years from now. Directed by Bregtje van der Haak / produced by VPRO Backlight, The Netherlands(source)

[unwire-hk]

數碼痴呆症漫延！超 4 成美國人忘記親人手機號碼

除了自己和至親的電話號碼，大家想一想記得起幾多親朋好友的電話號碼呢？根據 Kaspersky Lab 的一項名為「The Rise and impact of digital amnesia」研究顯示，1000 位受訪者當中超過一半稱記不起朋友和同事電話，超過 4 成受訪者表示難以記住自己兄弟姊妹的電話號碼，俗稱：數碼痴呆症 (Digital Amnesia)的情況越加嚴重。

隨著智能手機上可以記低任何訊息，想想的確再沒有需要花腦力記住電話號碼。這份調整報告指出，9 成以上用戶把互聯網看成是人腦的無限伸延，當中近 3 成用戶在動腦回想之前便已透過互聯網尋找答案。當人越依賴上網或智能手機來查看某些特別訊息時，便會造成「數字失憶」。另一方面，該報告指出接近一半用戶當遺失儲存在手機／電腦上的資料如相片時會感到困擾和悲傷，不知當大家壞 HDD、手機時失去儲存在內的重要資料及相片時，又會有甚麼樣的反應呢？

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[unwire-hk]

數碼痴呆症漫延！超 4 成美國人忘記親人手機號碼

除了自己和至親的電話號碼，大家想一想記得起幾多親朋好友的電話號碼呢？根據 Kaspersky Lab 的一項名為「The Rise and impact of digital amnesia」研究顯示，1000 位受訪者當中超過一半稱記不起朋友和同事電話，超過 4 成受訪者表示難以記住自己兄弟姊妹的電話號碼，俗稱：數碼痴呆症 (Digital Amnesia)的情況越加嚴重。

隨著智能手機上可以記低任何訊息，想想的確再沒有需要花腦力記住電話號碼。這份調整報告指出，9 成以上用戶把互聯網看成是人腦的無限伸延，當中近 3 成用戶在動腦回想之前便已透過互聯網尋找答案。當人越依賴上網或智能手機來查看某些特別訊息時，便會造成「數字失憶」。另一方面，該報告指出接近一半用戶當遺失儲存在手機／電腦上的資料如相片時會感到困擾和悲傷，不知當大家壞 HDD、手機時失去儲存在內的重要資料及相片時，又會有甚麼樣的反應呢？

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