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Technological Evolution And Obsolescence On Earth And In Outer Space, In A Project By Artist Julia Christensen This Volume Documents An Ongoing Investigation By Artist Julia Christensen (born 1976) Into How Our Relentless Upgrade Culture The Perceived Notion That We Need To Constantly Upgrade Our Electronics To Remain Relevantfundamentally Impacts Our Experience Of Time. In A Personal Narrative Interspersed With Related Interdisciplinary Artwork And Conversations With Experts From Different Fields (other Artists, Archivists, Academics), Christensen Takes Readers Along A Path From The International E-waste Industry To Institutional Archives, Eventually Leading Her To Nasas Jet Propulsion Laboratory (jpl). At Jpl, Christensen Began A Dialog With A Group Of Exo-planetary Scientists, Engineers And Machine Learning Experts To Develop Long-lived Space Mission Concepts That Include An Update Of The Voyager Spacecrafts 1977 Golden Record, To Be Embedded On A Hypothetical Future Interstellar Spacecraft.