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Jon Ippolito, Still Water
(jippolito@maine.edu)
Drawn from
New Media and Social Memory
by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito (MIT Press, 2012).
"If you take the Christian bible and put it out in the wind and rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will be gone. Our bible is the wind and rain." --Salish elder
Can archivists learn from nature to embrace a changing ambience?
Ambient software links distributed works via a common id.
Ambient wetware encodes culture in DNA.
Emulated wetware evolves culture via genetic algorithms.
An emulated ecosystem evolves readers via genetic programming.
Can archivists learn to love the wind and rain?