Session 6

Episode 1 - Early technologies for making living memory explicit

Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 5:30 PM

CQU Building, Melbourne

Emergence of technologies for transcribing ephemeral thought onto semi-permanent physical objects and some human impacts of these technologies.

• The ephemerality and fallibility of living memory versus physically changing the external world
• The requirements to count things in order to participate in society and commerce
• Tokens, words, alphabets, writing and clerical/scribal society
• The paper, printing, and typesetting revolutions make clerical knowledge public
• Accumulating explicit knowledge: books, journals, libraries and cataloge