Sosc2080/89 – 2002/03 Study Guide for “Into the Future: On the preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age”

(video available for individual viewing from SMIL in Scott Library; ask for video #4612; shown in lecture, Oct. 7. 2002 )

What is the major theme of the video?

What is the significance of the video focusing on the following events, places, and people (pay particular attention to the information medium being considered):
Fire set in The National Library in Sarajevo in 1992

Rosetta Stone (in British Museum)

Navajo Reservation in Arizona (petroglyphs)

Goldstone Communications Facility in California (re: NASA space probes)

U.S. Government database centres (specifically reference to Hazardous Waste Disposal Site database)

Project in Spain (re: records on the Spanish colonization of North America)

Librarians’ Conference re: digitization of books

New York City’s Science, Business and Technology Library

Voyageur Company (electronic books)

Scrap Metal Company

Peter Norton (talking about Norton Utilities)

Cybercafés

Tim Berners-Lee’s views on the Web

The Yahoo Directory

These lines from Shakespeare’s sonnet: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see/
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”