The Future of the Past

A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have caused more information to be lost than ever before; and an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Stille explores not simply the past, but our ideas about the past--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/01/2003
ISBN: 9780312420949
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citations: New York Times 04/27/2003 pg. 28