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"Our understanding of the past has to help us build a better future. That's the purpose of collective memory. Those who control our memory machines wil"
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There are powerful narratives being told about the future, insisting we are at a moment of extraordinary technological change. That change, according to these tales, is happening faster than ever before. It is creating an unprecedented explosion in the production of information. New information technologies — so we're told — must therefore change how we learn: change what we need to know, how we know, how we create knowledge. Because of the pace of change and the scale of change and the locus of change — again, so we're told — our institutions, our public institutions, can no longer keep up. These institutions will soon be outmoded, irrelevant. So we're told.
These are powerful narratives, as I said, but they are not necessarily true. And even if they are partially true, we are not required to respond the way those in power or in the technology industry would like us to.
Via Miloš Bajčetić
