Technology and Culture: Integration or Disintegration?

This paper deals with the problems of weakening of human memory due to the increasing use of machine memories in many ways. It enumerates the advantages of machine memory as stated by computer people as opposed to human memory. The paper then briefly discusses the reliance on human memory in such activities as oral history and oral archive, enumerates some institutions working on Iranian history based on oral history or archive, and then presents some suggestions.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ELPUB
• Authors: Mortaza Kokabi
• Keywords: ELPUB 2006, Human Memory, Information Management, Machine Memory, Oral History