When We Are No More

by Abby Smith Rumsey

  11 Idealer Durchschnitt eines Theils Der Erdrinde, by Heinrich Berghaus, 1841. David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com.

  12 Carl Haber and IRENE. © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Licensed under Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

  13 Library of Congress, 1897. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

  14 Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. AP Images/Ben Margot.

  INDEX

  Adam and Eve, here, here, here

  Adams, John, here, here

  adaptation

  culture as mechanism of, here, here

  to environment, here, here, here, here, here

  mutations and, here

  aesthetics, here, here, here, here

  aging, here

  Alexandria, here, here, here

  alphabet, here

  Alzheimer’s disease, here, here, here

  Amazon, here, here

  American Philosophical Society, here

  amnesia, here, here, here

  collective, here, here

  cultural, here, here, here

  source, here

  analog processing, here, here

  Antony, Mark, here

  anxiety, here, here, here

  Apple, here, here

  Arab Spring, here

  archives, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  artifacts, here, here, here, here. See also physical objects

  artificial memory, here, here, here

  arts, here, here

  Ashurbanipal, here

  Assyrians, here

  astronomical observatories, here

  attention, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  audio recordings, here, here, here, here, here, here

  audiovisual collections, of Library of Congress, here

  Augustine of Hippo, here

  authority, here, here, here, here

  autobiographical memory, here

  autonomy, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Avian Phylogenomics Project, here

  Bacon, Francis, here, here, here, here, here

  Bacon, Roger, here, here

  Bayley, John, here

  Bell, Alexander Graham, here, here, here

  Berlin, Isaiah, here

  Berners-Lee, Tim, here

  Bible, here, here, here See also Genesis

  Bidney, David, here

  Big Data, here, here

  biological limits, here

  biology, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Bland, Richard, here

  Boétie, Etienne de la, here, here, here

  books, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Bosnia, here

  brain

  adaptation by the, here

  analog processing by, here, here

  of child, here

  vs. computer, here

  digital processing by, here

  emotions and the, here

  formation of memories in, here

  hippocampus, here, here, here

  impressions and, here

  information processing by, here, here

  information stored in, here, here, here, here, here

  modeling, here, here, here, here, here

  Brin, Sergey, here

  British Association for the Advancement of Science, here

  British Empire, here, here

  British Museum (Library), here, here

  broadsides, here, here

  Burrow, J. W., here

  Caesar, Julius, here

  Carnegie, Andrew, here

  Catherine the Great, here

  Catholic Church, here, here

  cave paintings, here, here, here

  censorship, here

  Center for History and New Media, here

  Central Europe, here

  change, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Charron, Pierre, here

  children, here, here, here

  Christianity, here, here, here, here

  Cicero, here, here, here

  classical literature, here, here, here, here

  clay tablets, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Cleopatra, here

  Cold War, here, here

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, here

  collective amnesia, here, here

  collective memory, here, here, here, here, here, here

  culture and, here, here, here, here, here

  expansion of, here, here

  future of, here

  loss of, here, here

  collectors, here, here, here, here

  colonial America, here

  colonial empires, here

  commercial sites, here, here, here, here, here

  communication

  of early humans, here

  language, here, here

  new modes of, here, here

  speed of, here, here

  Communist Party, here

  compression algorithm, here

  computer code, here, here, here, here

  computers, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  confirmation bias, here

  congressional library, here, here, here

  conjecture, here, here, here

  consciousness, here, here, here, here, here, here

  copyright, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Copyright Office, here

  corporate files, here

  Council of Trent, here

  counterfactuals, here

  creation stories, here

  creativity, here, here

  crowdsourcing, here, here, here

  cultural amnesia, here, here, here

  culture

  changing, here

  as collective memory, here, here, here, here

  destruction of, here

  differences in, here, here

  of early humans, here

  evolution of, here

  functions of, here

  of knowledge, here, here

  as mechanism of adaption, here, here

  monoculture, here

  cuneiform tablets, here, here, here, here, here

  curiosity, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  daguerreotype, here, here

  dance, here

  Dark Ages, here

  Darwin, Charles, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  data

  as asset, here

  demand for, here

  digital. See digital data

  filtering of, here, here

  increase in amount of, here

  vs. knowledge, here

  large-scale, here

  management of, here

  vs. memory, here

  ownership of, here

  personal, here

  privacy of, here, here, here, here

  social media, here

  storage of, here, here, here, here

  decision making, here, here, here

  Declaration of Independence, here, here

  deduction, here

  deep learning, here

  deep time, here, here

  deliberative actions, here

  democracy, here, here, here

  Democritus, here

  Denisovans, here

  detective stories, here

  Dewey Decimal system, here

  dialectical materialism, here

  Dictaphones, here

  Diderot, Denis, here

  digital age

  future of memory in, here, here

  literacy in, here

  mastering memory in, here

  digital data. See also data

  access to, here, here

  archives of, here

  instability of, here, here, here

  large scale of, here

  management of, here

  preservation of, here, here, here, here

  storag
e of, here, here

  digital media, here

  instability of, here, here, here

  digital memory, here, here, here, here, here

  digital natives, here

  digital networks, here

  digital processing, here, here

  Digital Public Library of America, here

  digital technology, here, here, here, here. See also information technology

  disinformation, here

  disintegration, here

  disorientation, here

  disruption, here

  distraction, here, here

  DNA, here, here

  Dolan, R. J., here

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, here

  dreams, here

  Dupin, Monsieur C. Auguste, here

  earbuds, here

  Earth, age of, here, here, here, here, here

  Eastern Europe, here

  Egypt, here, here, here

  Einstein, Albert, here

  emotional intelligence, here, here

  emotions, here, here, here, here, here, here

  empathy, here, here, here

  empirical science, here, here, here, here

  energy, here, here, here, here, here

  Enlightenment, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  environment, adaptation to, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Epic of Gilgamesh, here

  essays, of Montaigne, here, here, here, here

  ethics, here, here

  Europeana, here

  evidence. See physical evidence

  evolution, here, here, here, here, here, here

  experience, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  expertise, here, here, here

  Facebook, here, here, here

  facts, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  fast thinking, here, here

  Feynman, Richard, here

  forensic imagination, here, here, here, here

  forensics, here, here

  forgetting, here, here, here, here, here. See also amnesia

  fossil evidence, here, here, here

  Founders, here, here, here, here

  Franklin, Benjamin, here, here, here, here

  freedom, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  free press, here

  Frith, Chris, here, here, here

  fundamentalists, here

  future, here, here, here, here

  of collective memory, here

  imagination and the, here

  imagining the, here

  of memory, here, here

  predictions about, here, here

  unpredictability of the, here

  futurists, here, here, here

  Galilei, Galileo, here, here, here

  Garden of Eden, here

  Genesis, here, here, here

  genome, here, here, here, here, here

  geography, here

  geology, here, here, here, here

  Giant Bible of Mainz, here

  globalization, here, here, here

  God, here, here, here, here

  Google, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Gospels, here

  Greeks, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Greenfield, Susan, here

  Gutenberg, Johannes, here, here

  Gutenberg’s Bible, here

  Haber, Carl, here

  Henry VIII, here

  hippocampus, here, here, here

  historical record, here, here

  history, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. See also past

  Homo sapiens, here, here, here, here

  Human Brain Project, here

  human memory, here, here. See also memory

  human nature, here

  Humboldt, Alexander von, here

  imagination, here, here, here, here

  impressions, here

  Incans, here

  Index of Prohibited Books, here

  industrial age, here

  information. See also data; knowledge

  ability to absorb, here

  access to, here, here, here, here

  demand for, here, here, here

  digital processing of, here

  false, here

  filtering of, here, here, here

  inflation, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  loss of, here

  output of, here

  overload, here, here, here

  processing of, by brain, here

  production of, here

  retention of, here

  sources, here

  storage of, here, here, here, here, here, here

  usefulness of, here

  value of, here, here

  information economy, here, here

  information technology, innovations in, here, here, here, here, here

  infrastructure, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  inscription technologies, here, here, here

  instinctual actions, here, here

  instrumental knowledge, here, here, here, here

  intellectual limits, here

  interactions, here

  Internet, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Internet Archive, here, here, here

  Internet filters, here, here

  IRENE, here

  Islam, here, here

  James, William, here, here

  Jasanoff, Sheila, here

  Jefferson, Thomas, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  book collection of, here, here, here

  as president of American Philosophical Society, here

  as president of U.S., here

  role of, in history, here

  on science, here, here

  as statesman, here

  theory of knowledge of, here

  Kahle, Brewster, here

  Kahneman, Daniel, here, here, here

  Kandel, Eric, here

  King, Cyrus, here

  knowledge. See also information

  accumulation of, here, here, here

  acquisition of, here

  advances in, here, here

  categorization of, here

  creation of, here

  cultivation of, here, here

  culture of, here, here

  vs. data, here

  destruction of, here

  digital, here

  distribution of, here

  domains of, here, here, here

  instrumental, here, here, here, here

  organized, here

  output of, here

  perfect, here

  power and, here

  preservation of, here, here, here

  quest for, here

  recording of, here

  responsibility for keeping, here, here, here

  reverence for, here

  scientific, here, here

  shared, here, here

  storage of, here

  transmission of, here, here

  useful, here

  Kundera, Milan, here

  labor, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  language, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  language learning, here

  Large Hadron Collider, here, here, here

  large-scale data, here

  Laughlin, Robert, here

  Law Library of Congress, here

  learning, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  age and, here

  categorization of, here

  deep, here

  language, here

  Le Corbusier, here, here

  Lewis and Clark expedition, here

  libraries, here, here, here, here

  in ancient world, here, here

  Assyrian, here

  in colonial America, here

  congressional library, here, here, here

  i
n digital age, here, here, here, here, here, here

  growth of, here

  of Jefferson, here, here

  Law Library of Congress, here

  Library of Alexandria, here, here, here

  Library of Congress, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  mission of, here

  of Montaigne, here

  Monticello, here, here

  online, here

  personal, here

  public, here, here, here, here

  purchasing of, here

  purpose of, here, here

  to restart civilization, here

  specialized, here

  as temples of learning, here

  universal library, here, here, here, here

  Library of Alexandria, here, here, here

  Library of Congress, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Library of Congress Classification system, here

  Library of Pergamum, here

  Lincoln, Abraham, here, here

  literacy, here, here, here

  Livingston, Robert, here

  locomotion, here

  Long Now Foundation, here

  long-term memory, here, here, here, here

  long-term thinking, here

  Louisiana Purchase, here

  Lucretius, here, here

  Luria, Aleksandr Romanovich, here, here

  Luther, Martin, here

  Lyell, Charles, here, here

  Machiavelli, here

  machine intelligence, here, here

  machine-readable files, here

  Madison, James, here, here, here, here

  make-believe, here

  maladaptations, here

  Mano, here

  mapping, here, here, here, here

  market capitalism, here, here

  Marx, Karl, here, here

  material evidence. See physical evidence

  materialism, here, here

  dialectical, here

  memory and, here

  origins of, here

  material universe, here

  matter, Greek view of, here

  McCarthy, James, here

  McPherson, Isaac, here

  meaning, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  medical history museums, here

  memorization, here, here

  memory

  about, here

  artificial, here. See also digital memory

  art of, here

  autobiographical, here

  capacity, here

  collective, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  consolidation, here

  vs. data, here

  digital, here, here, here, here, here

  in digital age, here

  disintegration of, here

  emotions and, here, here, here, here, here

  failure, here

  formation of, here, here, here

  functions of, here

  future of, here, here

  human, here

  imagination and, here