Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past

As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities are found, it seems as though the relics of our past have never been at greater risk of being lost to history. 

Or are they? Technology like geospatial sensing, satellites, drones, 3D imaging, and the like can be deployed to restore what might otherwise be destroyed forever. 

Join Future Tense for an evening discussion of how present technologies are being used to deliver the past to the future. Can't make the event in person? Watch the live webcast here and/or follow the discussion online by following us @FutureTenseNow. 

Participants will include Kirk Johnson, sant director, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Scott Branting, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Central Florida, project director, Heritage Mapping and Data Integration with the American Schools of Oriental Research Cultural Heritage Initiatives; Salam Al Kuntar, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, associate faculty, Penn Cultural Heritage Center. Moderated by Sarah R. Graff, senior faculty fellow, Barrett, The Honors College, and faculty affiliate of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.

Future Tense is a partnership of Arizona State University, New America and Slate.

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