What we live today is a data-based society, informations are everywhere around our life. "We do not live in a society that uses digital archives; we live in an information society that is a digital archive." The data-based society is also forced by the development of technology, with the flourish it be, we are in a archive age.
Information is valuable, but the value of it is dynamic. The value of data account in two ways,one is the value of the information itself, the other one is the storage cost of the data. With the development of technology, the storage cost of date is lower. In recently society, people tend to use internet to store their informations and also find informations online, as thus, on one hand, it could enhances our database, on the other hand, the cost of internet almost none. So, the technology provides us an easy way to method to archive those data. Just as the video mentions,"Expanding file systems to type is now available for open system.", which means that there is a higher ability to access all the data online.
If we upload informations to the internet, then the internet could store our informations, and if once we lost it, we still could find it back. I remember that I saw an article named "Internet would never forget", within that article, it talks about an example that a lady want to change a job, but after interviewing, she was told that she was refused, because they found some her used photos online, which they could not accept. This story surprised me a lot at the moment I first read. Because, when we are uploading our photos, we would not think to that further that those photos may be used in some other ways one day. And what the title of this article is very true. Internet would never forget, once you upload your informations online, even though you may delete it further, but there still are some people may receive those informations already. As thus, actually, internet could memorize all the online informations.For example, the scandal of sexual photo in China. When Edison's photos are betrayed by the person who fix his computer, his photos are uploaded online. Even though, when those search engines delete those photos when they discover, still, there are many people have those photos already. And now, if you want to find those photos, there still are some ways that you could find those photos online. Therefore, once your informations appear online, the internet would never forget.
With the coming of archive age, our society changes as well. Our society becomes individualism. There is no exactly boundary for public space and private space, our society tend to be much open. Facebook and Youtube are two typical examples. People could connect to it easily and quickly. Therefore, they could post whatever they like online, actually, this is a tendency in today's society. We are often seeing that people post pictures of themselves, and if they eat some foods, they would like taking photos of those photos and then posting it online. They like to use pictures to record their daily life and also share their life experiences to their friends. Those things are used to be considered into private space, but now, people publish these things on public. Thereby, there is no exactly boundaries for private space and public space, and our society tends to become individualism.
Thinking this facts into a deeper understanding. Why people are more often to publish those informations online? One reason should be the convenience and highly use of internet, and another reason would be people's mentally empty. The relationships between people are not that close compare to the past,even the transportation is advanced. But people still want communication with others, plus the internet is convenient, so they post whether their feelings or their photos to let others know their recent life and then make communications.
Anyways, everything happens between people's could influence our society, so dose the technology. The digital archive brings so many changes to us, the very important thing for us is making a right choice of how to face it. Things not come only with its advantages, but also problems.
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