Paper, Digits, and Bytes: Putting Our Culture's Memory at Risk.

The article focuses on the threat posed by the new technology devices and approaches to the collective memory. The new ways of organizing and storing information can be seen both as great ways of organizing space, or as a danger to the collective memory. From microfilm to the computer, storage technologies have solved space problems and destroyed cultural paper trails. The main problem which is faced while using the non-paper storage technologies is that the non-paper technologies can fade away very soon. The rapidity with which old digital data is discarded in favor of the new is part of the culture of cyberspace. But, it is too easy to destroy the data, and very difficult to retain it back. With computer viruses, worms, and a wide range of other terrors, the data stored in the technology devices is not at all safe and can be lost at any time.