How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday usersArchives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of “archival” and “retrieval” practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inf...

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growth in computing power and the rapid development of digital technology. This dynamic has enabled informational procedures to supplant an ever-increasing range of human and mechanical activity. However, indications that the semiconductor industry is approaching the ph...