Have you ever wondered what happened to make all the daily news flow on the network? And the millions of documents that are published and then lost in the labyrinthine cyberspace? Who will save the digital information network from oblivion?
memory is the basis of cybernetic knowledge and save the memory becomes increasingly a necessity since a few years the news all converge in this space that, although virtual, it has become very concrete, through the work of many people who every day make us partakers of the events that happen in every corner of the world. What will become of all the words merged into the web? How can one do in order to keep them to leave to future generations the opportunity to consult?
early as the third century BC, the Alexandria library planned to create a place where they kept all the books of mankind. Today, in the twentieth century, this task belongs to the network and the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/ has set itself the ambitious goal: to build a library that collects all the web pages created from the source to day. If you would like to review a site that is no longer available because it has been deleted, try doing a search on the Archive and, most likely, riaffiorerà with all text, pictures, videos, links.
Within this virtual space created in 1996 you can find a huge amount of material published on the Internet.
The peculiar thing is that the patient and thankless task of selecting and identifying pages to be stored is not done by a human mind, but is the work of web robot.
This reminded me of the last class made in which the professor explained to us that the news that Google selects are chosen not by humans but by computers that select the News click.
The catastrophic prediction made in the courtroom of the progress of computer power on humans does not seem to be a utopia.
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