frans smit records, hyperobjects and authenticity
We are immersed in digital information. Every bit of this hyperobject affects us.
Helping to maintain the strong authenticity of records that are part of it, should be a
part of our ethical obligations. Nobody can express the importance of this in a better
way than Jorge Luis Borges (2015) did in his poem The Plot, that ends with the lines:
"Of all those lost things there is not one that does not throw a long shadow and that
does not determine what you do today or what you will do tomorrow".10
archives in liquid times
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