Reading about the digitisation of “everything” reminded me a lot of another class I’m in that I keep on referencing in my responses to readings, ‘Future of Medicine’. Within that class we talk about how medicine is evolving in a way that requires data and information to become digitalised and therefore, more widely accessible. In this reading, this idea becomes clear on page 86, where the author notes that digitisation increases levels of understanding. Something that I have not really thought about, however, is the idea shown on page 88 that digitalisation can help us better understand the past. Although digitalisation may potentially decrease the value of some aspects of the past (e.g. the value of the knowledge on some piece of information), what digitalisation can also do is not only understand the past but also preserve bits of the past. I think that in this age, preservation and conservation are two very important actions that we should take – digitalisation of everything aids us in this process.