Deviant Abstraction

Thanks Cecile.
Update Everybody know this since three months… Well I live in the countryside.

According to Joseph, one of my close friends, we are transitioning from history to “post-history”. Prehistory to history was marked by invention of writing. Post-history by keeping everything online.

We are in this time because everything someone makes/write is digital. It can be kept for a cost approaching zero. Future historians will have more than a glimpse of this time: they will be able to experience this time.

Digging a little bit more, this is not yet true: currently most of the dataset are deleted but the time where everything will be archived is not far away. We can see it coming thanks to a few archiving websites.

Another example: phone operators keep the content of all your SMS. Right now, only the police can access them (in Europe) but historians will be able to… And you too !

I don’t know how new is this idea but I find this idea fascinating.

Voici mon mémoire de probatoire CNAM et les transparents de la présentation associée.

Mémoire (thesis) et transparents et notes d’exposé.

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