The Powerhouse Museum has recently issued a 'call for emails' for its new project, which aims to 'preserve' a snapshot of ordinary life in Australia, 2008. The article identifies what I think has been the greatest advancement over previous histories, the ordinary person ability to contribute to the overall history, no matter how small, how insignificant they may seem, the blogs, photos, profiles, music tastes, email addresses, all intricately link us to forming our own little biography and history.
I think the project is trying to capture a greater sense of context for the people in the future, taking the guesswork out of history. But if this were the only thing to survive of our generation, and the emails the only reference point, I wonder how skewed the perception be of our society. This is as much as chance to try and secure a sense of immortality, who knows, maybe in 4000 years or so, we could have people reading these very blogs!
If we can't achieve physical immortality, is historical immortality the next best thing?!
1 comment:
ppl wil thnk i cnt spll omg loll!11
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