ARTICLE SUMMARY

Name: M. ZAKI ZAHIRSYAH

Student Number: 1406574522
Faculty & Class: Faculty of Engineering, S303

Bones to Phones is an essay written by Margaret Wertheim that mainly

discussed about media and its survival over time. Some of media that served human in
the past time are gradually disappear as the time goes by, then called dead media.
The existence of dead media makes 2 writers, Sterling and Kadrey, interested in
finding out what they actually are and why they cant survive over time. Sterling and
Kadrey has spent much of their 5 years gaining information about dead media though
it is not their expertise. They are not academic historians. Inuksuit and lukasa are the
example of dead media that has been listed in Dead Media Working Notes. The
inuksuit were used as travel guides by the Inuit while lukasa were used to teach luba
people about cultural heroes. As Sterling and Kadrey assembling an archive of the
dead media, they have noticed any qualities of media to survive through times with
their knowledge of media and fossils. At least, successful media need a close
association with the society. Moreover, a media should have a great deal further and
tend to be simple to survive. The last of Sterling and Kadreys argue is about the fate
of books. Although book is just ink on a page, it can survive through time and lasted
for so long.