Remembering everything? Techno-optimisms and digital debris

Chloé S. Georas Santos
2016 | Brill

An already prototypical image of the internet is that of a universal repository for the patrimonial heritage of humanity. As early as 1967 Benjamin Kaplan foreshadowed what was to come when he asked us to imagine how computer networks would be capable of storing the complete trove of human knowledge ...