Right now I'm reading a book about how a mass media, mainly television, impacts memory on public culture. Specifically, the author discusses the Holocaust and how it becomes a "moral paradigm" in American culture.
It got me thinking about how our generation and future generations are going to be impacted by mass media and memories. Obviously, technology has evolved tremendously in the past 60 years and we have so many ways to record our memories.
How do you think all of the present and future technology is going to shape how we remember things? Can it be a bad thing? I'm not talking about just personal memories but broader things, like the Sept. 11, the War in Iraq...etc.
To me, 20 years from now, when we look back, I think it will be simple, but yet chaotic. We're going to have access to almost any newspaper, magazine or website but with inventions like the 24hour news station and the moving ticker at the bottom of the screen, it might be too much. Something we believe in now, could be altered just by how much a mass media affects it over time.