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The Future of Looking Back

Microsoft Research Cambridge

What will we leave behind in this new digital age? As digital technology takes an ever-increasing role in our lives, one question is how we´ll manage our collections after we´re gone. What takes the place of shoeboxes full of pictures and dog-eared record albums? Get an inside look at Microsoft researcher Richard Banks´s thinking about how we might manage the digital artifacts and content we´re creating now - and how we might pass on or inherit these kinds of items in the future.

The Table of Contents of "The Future of Looking Back":

Stuff and sentimentality

• Chapter 1: Getting sentimental
• Chapter 2: Attributes of the physical and the digital
• Chapter 3: Where the physical and the digital meet

A digital life

• Chapter 4: Our digital lifespan
• Chapter 5: A digital death

New sentimental things

• Chapter 6: Things and experiences
• Chapter 7: Recording our lives
• Chapter 8: The things we put online
• Appendix: Afterword
• Appendix: References

About the Author Richard Banks:

Richard Banks is a principle interaction designer for Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. He´s part of a team that spends most of its time looking at family life, trying to understand the complexities of home, in order to figure out how the digital should fit in appropriately. Richard joined Microsoft in 2005 after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London. Since then he´s worked as a design manager in Seattle on Microsoft´s Office, Windows, and MSN products before moving home and into Microsoft Research. Richard holds in excess of twenty patents for design work at Microsoft and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK.

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