ENG 1100 Lecture 2: 08_Malthusianinformationfamine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Mel Sexton

Document Summary

Charles seife is a professor of journalism at new york. University and the author of decoding the universe: how the. New science of information is explaining everything in the. Cosmos, from our brains to black holes. r of the first time, humans are within reach of a form of im- mortality. All else, all of our memory and knowledge, would melt away when we died. It"s now within your means to record, in real time, audio and video of your entire existence. A tiny camera and microphone could wirelessly transmit and store everything you see and hear for the rest of your life. It would take only a few thousand terabytes of hard-drive space to archive someone"s entire audiovisual experience from cradle to grave. Cheap digital memory has already begun to alter our society, at least on a small scale.