The Memory of the World
GOOD. Not to be biased and all, but for me it really is a good science fiction story; it depicts the idea of preserving the memory of the world which today is pretty much possible. What made the story unique for me is that it's not the usual story that only has one theme, it has different themes - language, importance of information, research and personal issues like love, lies etc.
Now another reason why it is a good science fiction story for me, is that it is plausible and with the technology we have right now, it is not impossible to store large amounts of information into a small device (like a memory card for example). Also we can't deny the fact that others are already preparing for the post apocalyptic life and preserving the most important things and resources they're gonna be needing.
Bottom line, it's good. by how Italo viewed the future and relatively what's happening and the technology today.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
The Memory of the World - Group Blog
So our group reported and discussed Italo Calvino's "The Memory of the World" with the theme, Post Apocalyptic.
The text was indeed different from the stories we had been discussing in class; first, the way it was told - first person point of view, second, that it has a couple of themes that we can choose from.
The Memory of the World - The story goes of how this organization is trying to collect information from people and preserving them incase the end of the world comes. It discussed the importance of information and technology, the existence of another life form in other galaxies and planets, and also it tackles on the possibility of the end of the world. The story has a bit of twist in the end which made it more of a personal type of story.
For the movies, we chose "The 6th Day" and "The Book of Eli"; summaries of the movie can be found here:
The Book of Eli - a post apocalyptic film which helped us illustrate how to gather the memory of the world - how they were able to collect information (books, resources, and everything about human life) and being able to preserve them after the said apocalypse.
The 6th Day - a scifi film about cloning and it shows how they collect a person's memory and storing them in a small disc (which is one of the goals of the organization in the text - memory of the world)
Presentation used in class can be found and downloaded here:HERE
Article: 7 shelters to save you if 2012 calls doom
Group Members:
Neoben Rivera
Junico Potestad
Jasmine Arceo
Paul Jan Rodelas
Catherine Abdon
The Memory of the World - The story goes of how this organization is trying to collect information from people and preserving them incase the end of the world comes. It discussed the importance of information and technology, the existence of another life form in other galaxies and planets, and also it tackles on the possibility of the end of the world. The story has a bit of twist in the end which made it more of a personal type of story.
For the movies, we chose "The 6th Day" and "The Book of Eli"; summaries of the movie can be found here:
The Book of Eli - a post apocalyptic film which helped us illustrate how to gather the memory of the world - how they were able to collect information (books, resources, and everything about human life) and being able to preserve them after the said apocalypse.
The 6th Day - a scifi film about cloning and it shows how they collect a person's memory and storing them in a small disc (which is one of the goals of the organization in the text - memory of the world)
Presentation used in class can be found and downloaded here:HERE
Article: 7 shelters to save you if 2012 calls doom
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