A different planet: Neuromedia asset management
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ywords: neuroscience, biotechnology, neuromedia, cognitive science, digital continuity, DNA computing, non-silicon computing, molecular memory Abstract Because of the synergy between computational advances, neuroscience, and biological understanding, we can now begin to manipulate living systems on a level with our ability to manipulate physical and chemical systems. This synergy will have a direct effect on our relatively new digital asset technologies. The serious problems of the ephemeral nature of digital records will inevitably be supplanted by technology influenced by the biosciences. A carbon-based solution to storage media might radically change the digital preservation and asset strategies of emulation and/or migration of data. Because this is a revolution in our understanding of the nervous system and its environment, the revolution will work both ways — from culture to science as well as from science to culture — as we incorporate the application of these discoveries back into the creative process and the technologies that support them.
INTRODUCTION
Ben Howell Davis Davis International Associates, 1064 Long Cove Road, Port Medway, Nova Scotia BOJ 2TO, Canada Tel: +1 502 521 7040 Email: [email protected]
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Recent experiences in strategic planning for the Graduate Industrial Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, the LA Freewaves media arts network, and as a participant with InterPARES 2 (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) have made me aware of an emerging information condition of ‘‘neuromedia’’ that will have important implications for multimedia asset management. Because of the synergy between computational advances and biological understanding we can now begin to manipulate living systems on a level with our ability to manipulate physical and chemical systems. This synergy will have a direct effect on our relatively new digital technologies. The ephemeral nature of digital records will inevitably be supplanted by technologies influenced by the biosciences. A carbon-based solution to storage media might
radically change digital preservation strategies of emulation and/or migration of data. Because this is a revolution in our understanding of the nervous system and its environment, the revolution will work both ways — from our cultural heritage to science as well as from science to culture heritage — as we incorporate the application of these discoveries back into the creative process and the technologies that support them. For instance, it was recently announced (February, 2003) at Simon Fraser University1 that a single molecule switch has been developed that would enable computers to have 10,000 times as much memory as current computers. This bio-chemical approach to computational design is a good example of how rapidly crossdisciplinary understanding will take effect in new products. In the same month, Intel announced a new chip technology that supercharges cell phones to access the internet, display digital photographs, pl
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