We the dead : preserving data at the end of the world /

"Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects...

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Main Author: Murphy, Brian Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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MARC

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