ABSTRACT
From cuneiforms to computers, memory technologies that undergird the global knowledge infrastructure are the cornerstone of the built environment. They have enabled us to exert ever greater control over nature and other humans. What will happen to the deep infrastructure of cultural and personal memory as we move precipitously from an artifactual materiality to a deceptively immaterial network of digital data? Given the technical, political, and financial challenges of preserving digital memory, today’s architecture and design professions are crucial to designing the new knowledge environment.
