The Future of Looking Back by Banks, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Future of Looking Back

Foreword Introduction

Digital histories The lens of a designer Acknowledgments

I. Stuff and sentimentality

1. Getting sentimental

Keeping things safe Keeping things for ourselves Keeping things for an audience Keeping things for legacy A sense of obligation Sentiment, not archaeology Unexpectedly sentimental Family heirlooms A sentimental point of view Heirlooms with function Adding your own layer of sentiment Design challenges

2. Attributes of the physical and the digital

What’s good about the physical? What’s good about the digital? Design challenges

3. Where the physical and the digital meet

Bringing the physical and digital closer together

Digital containers Making digital content part of our environment

A history of stories Exchanging state Design challenges

II. A digital life

4. Our digital lifespan

Infants

Recording a life A process of self-reflection Celebrating through recording Passing on experiences

Growing up

Social centers and personal space Taking on the responsibility of recording Taking technology for granted Sentimental adolescence

Adults

Changing phases Sharing history

Seniors

Emptying the nest Reflecting on life

Design challenges

5. A digital death

A part of due process Nonmaterial legacies Grieving Honoring the dead A continuity of relationship Design challenges

III. New sentimental things

6. Things and experiences

Capturing places

Preserving physical spaces Preserving virtual places

Capturing things

Capturing things to let them go Physical experiences of digital things

Capturing people Design challenges

7. Recording our lives

Logging our lives Playing on the senses

Audio Some other senses

A spontaneous relationship to the past Design challenges

8. The things we put online

Things live all over the place Not places for life Changing notions of the public and private Looking forward

Backing up Making connections between places Content mobility Centralizing our estate

Design challenges

A. Afterword B. References

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Chapter 8

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