Digital Past
Digital Past: Will Self reflects on the effect of digital technology on his perception of the passage of time.
Will Self reflects on the effect of digital technology on his perception of the passage of time. "Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to the individually recalled 'good old days', but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to within a tenth of a second."
Producer: Sheila Cook.
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- Fri 14 Dec 2012 20:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 16 Dec 2012 08:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Thu 6 Jun 2013 14:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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