So it seems that many of us in this class, if not all, will be able to look forward to our future careers in public history after graduation being overtaken by our robotic assistants. Maybe even a an archive or museum would just be run by one human director that oversees everything...I imagine this will be Mitchel.
Technology in public history has been a common topic we have covered a lot through out this class, through discussion, presentations, and a divided class debate on the merits or problems it would cause. However, one thing I have heard usually added into the topic is about the possibilities for present and future forms of media being exhibited or presented to a researcher in an archive.
One thing that we as public historians really enjoy (hopefully) is the interaction with an actual artifact. We like looking through (and handling if possible) the photographs, diaries, correspondence, and works of art that the generations before us have produced. However, what will be the possible application of materials from our generation and a effective ways to use them? How will we make use of emails, typed documents and presentations, this blog that I am writing, and the creative work in done digitally like art work and videos? I think preservation has been a topic that has discussed how we would take care of this digital age, but how would you create ways of exhibiting and interpreting them when they exist in intangible formats.
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