Year 3025. A researcher must reconstruct the life of a girl who lived a thousand years earlier. A History enthusiast visits an exhibition that offers a unique experience of the past. A designer wants to get into a prestigious school, the one on Moon Base. A boy has just bought a house and wants to bring his digital assistant with him.
All these characters from the future have one thing in common: they question our present—which they call the Digital Middle Ages—by searching through archives for answers.
A social media post, a web meme, a shared photo: these too will be the traces of our existence for the detectives of future archives. But which stories and images will we seek, and how? What will be the future of archives?
The new podcast series created by CUBO in collaboration with Stefania Carini, a journalist and expert on media and History, attempts to answer these questions. The series was made for the eighth edition of Archivissima, the first festival dedicated to promoting and enhancing archival heritage. This year's theme is "On the Side of the Future."
