The Future of the Past

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By (author): "Alexander Stille"
Publish Date: 2002
The Future of the Past
ISBN0312420943
ISBN139780312420949
AsinThe Future of the Past
Original titleThe Future of the Past
A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past—and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.