Extracting memories from the dead
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- 1 2016-04-19T15:07:28-07:00 Austin Rogers f6032d00a05cd49d2ba108fdc3cb4239144a3b2e Memories can be extracted from the dead, although random. But by doing so there is a hope that consciousnesses hope to live forever. Austin Rogers 2 plain 2016-04-19T15:09:12-07:00 Austin Rogers f6032d00a05cd49d2ba108fdc3cb4239144a3b2e
- 1 2016-04-19T15:09:30-07:00 Austin Rogers f6032d00a05cd49d2ba108fdc3cb4239144a3b2e Extraction from the dead Austin Rogers 1 plain 2016-04-19T15:09:30-07:00 53.06%,36.86%,17.74%,13.46% Austin Rogers f6032d00a05cd49d2ba108fdc3cb4239144a3b2e
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“I shall extract this memory from you now”
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Discussing Archives
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World of Tomorrow lives within the outernet a "neural network". Everyone can be connected or they can choose to be lost within the safe infinity of the outernet. The question that is raised in the film is how do one store knowledge or how are things archived in the film. Ideas and thoughts usually have to be transferred to paper in traditional archives. The definition of archive hasn't been changed since moving into the more digital methods.
In her article, "Archives in Context and as Context", Kate Theimer looks at coming from outside of the digital humanities realm. She recognizes that the definition of archive has not changed since becoming digitized. She also challenges the idea of what archives mean in context of the work other digital humanists are doing. Which may not seem strange but often times it seems that that term gets thrown around lot especially in digital spaces, "it is important to note that the formal definition of “archives” used in the archival community cited here recognizes no differences for electronic records, born digital material, or materials presented on the web" Many times we see archivist put together an archive of the interests they have in a subject. That does not help with preserving the media. What does it mean to archive in a completely digital space though?
In World of Tomorrow the way things are preserved and put into archives is a little different than what we have seen. Usually there is some sort of transference of thoughts whether it is into writing or speaking. When entering the "outernet" Emily Prime can have her memories taken from her through a ray that Emily III can take and archive. If Emily III can move other people through time, her own memories and extract memories from them she can potentially create an archive from anyone at anytime. The fact that it is digitally uploaded also removes the transference from words on a page or from the audio the memories or thoughts can be input into anything, which we see Emily do. Because everything becomes a digital space what is truly off limits to upload and attach though there are definite class divisions of who can have what stored and where it can be stored.
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A-? "Welcome, Emily, to the Outernet"
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Methods of Preservations and Archives
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In the Film there are many method in which data is preserved and stored. Emily III goes into a lot of detail about how different memories are stored and stored into the Outernet. All of these methods can potentially be accessed much like how archives are set now. But some require much more in order to achieve and utilize.
Clones/Cloning
One of the first methods that Emily III describes is the digital transference of information from clone to clone. This is usually done by the wealthy. They can afford to have their consciousnesses uploaded into a clone and continue the process. Emily III is an example of this type of preservation and archive or memory.
Digital Transfer/Consciousness into a box
This method is a cheaper way of preserving and archiving. In this method the subject's thoughts and consciousnesses are put inside a cube. Materials can move between the cube and the outside. Uploading different materials and also downloading messages from the consciousnesses. However this method does not seem as enjoyable due to the nature of the thoughts that were downloaded from the cube.
Extraction Living and Dead
The next way or arching and preserving memories is through the extraction process. Emily III mentions that for a long time only memories from the dead could be extracted and they came through as bits and pieces. She also creates a museum of these anonymous memories for display and preservation. Though it is not mentioned there is a way that Emily III sifts through memories for this museum to be put in place. She also takes the memories from her love, David, in this same extraction process. However it seems she keeps a private archive for herself of his thoughts and memories recalling one as her favorite. Emily III also extracts a memory from Emily Prime of Emily Prime's mother, for her own benefit, to "comfort [her] in the days to come".
View Screens
The view screen process it's all it's own. This method archives events in real time and shows what's is happening as someone watches the screen and their reactions to the events happening. This could potentially mean anyone could watch any person at any given moment.
Face Robot
This way of archiving is adresses the pay walls that archival work has both presently and in the film. If you don't have the means to afford to have thoughts and self uploaded then the most archived self you can have is a face on a robot. Currency has an effect on what is being seen and what can be seen.