In the course of human history, it is rare enough for a significant technology for recording the past to develop: the past several millennia have given us writing, the printing press and now the Internet.  What we can know about the past has changed dramatically with each such development.  Geoffrey Bowker discusses the ways in which we are constructing new personal, intellectual and social pasts through the Internet and its attendant technologies.

Hosted by: Center for Advanced Study

In conjunction with: Department of Computer Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Institute of Communications Research, Program in Science, Technology, Information and Medicine