“When today’s present turns into the distant past, today’s everyday life won’t fall into oblivion anymore. For the self-perception of society, the lack of historical memory loss is even more consequential than the current loss of privacy.”
Tag: 01.11.13
Warning: UK Could Lose 300 Public Libraries In 2013
“2012 saw 200 libraries shut according to figures from CIPFA, but many fear 2013 could be worse.”
Video Game Industry Tries To Fend Off Violence Charges
“The $60 billion industry is facing intense political pressure from an unlikely alliance of critics who say that violent imagery in video games has contributed to a culture of violence.”
Just How Much Faster Does Information Travel Since The 1800’s?
“Let’s say a fresh, well-trained postal horse could run at 20 MPH, which means that’s how fast one page of information (say, a one-kilobyte letter) could travel. A one kilobyte email travels at, oh, the speed of light, basically, so that’s close to 670 million MPH.”
San Antonio To Open “Bookless” Public Library
“If you want to get an idea what it looks like, go into an Apple store.”
Pushing For An LGBT History Museum In DC
“Its 40-page strategic plan, titled “Here I Am,” explores stories of gay men and lesbians and their searches for identity, among them lesbian performers at Harlem blues clubs in the 1920s, young demonstrators from the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York and John Fryer, a gay psychiatrist who advocated for homosexuality to be de-listed as a mental illness in 1972.”
When Fiction Reads More Like Rather Compelling Fact
“Crusoe’s journal is not only a record of despair, but an answer to it. His pen, as much as his ax or his musket, becomes a tool of survival.”
More Cutbacks For The Arts In Sheffield
Museums and theatres in the Yorkshire city face a 20 percent reduction in council support. “The news comes a week after Sheffield Theatres was named regional theatre of the year by The Stage newspaper.”
Muti Flies To Italy To Recuperate; Symphony President Has His Back
“I don’t think any of us are in a position to judge what someone else does to try to manage his health or an illness. … We each have different capacities for managing ill health. If this is the way he thinks he can do that, then that’s his choice.”
Opera Colorado, Facing A Big Deficit, Cuts Way Back
“The move postpones the world premiere of ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ which was set to debut in May, for at least two years. The opera, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, was the centerpiece of the upcoming season and has been highly touted in ads and banners across the region.”