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• 1 media/Screen Shot 2016-04-19 at 4.16.14 PM.png 2016-04-19T18:24:45-07:00 “You will hope to live forever” 14 Archiving memories in World of Tomorrow image_header 2016-04-24T13:48:20-07:00 Archives may have a difference of how the information gets to into an archive. But something that has also changed is how things are being stored themselves. Usually an archive is a place of many different articles, book, and manuscripts. In World of Tomorrow there is a way to physically show the thoughts of others. Emily III demonstrates to Emily Prime the process that pulls out the memories, "saying for many years the memories could only be harvested from the dead, the images were fished out blindly from random bit of neurons saying that they looked like this: 
  
  The memories come through as a "digital item" in a way, sometimes the memory comes through clearly other times we see the blurriness of other memories such as David's final memory. But what does Emily III or other Outernet beings do with this information? Emily III takes the random bits of memories from other dead humans and makes a museum of them for other Outernetlings to view.
  
  What is so strange here is that Emily III is doing exactly what archivists are doing right now. She curating a specific things to locate and to put into her archive. She is looking at different memories of different humans and making them visual. In this way she is preserving past thoughts and past memories. A lot of what is found in an archive are memories of thoughts from a previous generation. Except in this way we have the exact image that was left inside in the brain. Are we that far from the world of tomorrow, especially when all this is already happening? Does it just become more digital?
  
  The last point is that the Emily III is archiving in real time.
  
  Statues are posted, pictures taken,and videos are uploaded not unlike what is going on in the film. Emily describes a process in which the Outernet beings watch things from the past or watch others react to someone else react. YouTube has a myriad of videos that are someone reacting to something and then we can watch someone react to those reactions. We archiving in real time just like what we see. And the thoughts and memories of the dead become more important once they are gone. Does archive change even when it is a completely digital space? Where does the humanity go when in this space?
• 1 media/Screen Shot 2016-04-23 at 1.22.52 PM.png 2016-04-20T10:28:28-07:00 "Welcome, Emily, to the Outernet" 9 Methods of Preservations and Archives image_header 2016-04-24T13:49:24-07:00 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.