digitization
What If Technology Belonged to the People?
We need non-market, publicly-owned alternatives to big tech. Here’s how we get it.
Now You Can Download 2,500 Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress’s expansive digitization efforts makes more art available to a larger public.
What’s Digitization Doing to Health Care?
New software is industrializing medicine by turning doctors into data entry clerks—and making them suicidally depressed in the process.
The Man Who Spent 30 Years in the Rainforest Preserving the Music of the Bayaka
Louis Sarno went to record the music of the Central African Republic's Bayaka community in the 80s and never turned back.
Bug Researchers Are Digitising Their Collections of Skewered Insects
Zoosphere aims to digitize fragile museum specimens and make them available to entomologists across the world.
The Curator Who Archives the Images of Dreams
In an unassuming Manhattan building, a curator archives the so-called archetypal images of dreams.
This Project Is Digitizing Wax Cylinders So You Can Listen Like It's 1880
There’s been a quiet revival around this mostly forgotten recording medium.
The City That Has Its Own Operating System
In the first episode of the UK Motherboard Show, we visit Bristol’s smart city project and talk hyperconnected futures.
70 Years On: Researchers Archive the Longest-Running Study of A-Bomb Survivors
In his 20s, US geneticist William Jack Schull joined a study to examine the effects of radiation on atomic bomb survivors. Now 93, he wants to share his experiences with the world.
These 100-Year-Old Photos Are Being Reunited With the Communities They Depict
In the early 1900s, anthropologists amassed 26,000 photographs of the indigenous Evenki and Orochen people from Inner Mongolia and Siberia. Now they're being digitized.
How to Download a Genocide
Rediscovering my Armenian-ness and a lost heritage with the technologies of remembrance.